Team MAA Robot
The continuing increase in the demand for health services in Bangladesh is putting tremendous pressure on health care providers thereby compromising quality. The importance of investing in human resources for health has been reiterated globally which state in no uncertain terms that the route to achieving the health MDGs is through workers; there are no short cuts. There is a severe shortage of skilled health workers in the places where they are most needed. A major constraint identified towards reaching the MDGs and other national health goals is the issue of the health workforce. This includes their production, training, practice, attrition and motivation.
With the increasing need for manpower, the best possible substitute have become humanoid robots, as they are precise, always available and repeatable with high accuracy.
Our aim is to design and control of a humanoid robot that can
perform health-care and medical tasks.
Human Resources for Health (HRH), the backbone of the health care delivery system, is in a crisis situation in Bangladesh with a critical shortage of health workers, although health workers command three-fourths of the national health budget. Worker numbers and quality are positively associated with gains in health. The density of workers in a population is closely associated with some of the key health MDG indicators. Huge shortages of qualified providers and presence of a huge body of unqualified providers with unknown quality are major issues.
There is a serious shortage of skilled health workers in the places where they are most needed. There is an estimated 3.05 physicians and 1.07 nurses per 10,000 population.
In prospect of Bangladesh, the population problem has become the worst problem to control. As a result, health problem is a main issue in absence of sufficient skilled health workers. This project can reduce the pressure of the hospitals and clinics. But in a developing country like Bangladesh it could take time to be socially acceptable. In contrast, if we look into the cost
and feasibility behind it, our idea can be tried at individual to
national level gradually.
In present, the hospitals and clinics are in tremendous pressure of patients. This project can be a great solution to this as humanoid robots are the best substitute in this case. This project can also be used in individual level so all the patients do not have to came to hospitals.
Our aim is to design and control of a humanoid robot that can
perform health-care and medical tasks. To do that we have to
•Create a human like structure for the robot
• Building an app to control and communicate with the robot.
• Making the robot to perform actuation sequence
• Equipping the robot with some sensors and cameras
• Implementation of machine learning, neural network and computer vision in the robot to make it intelligent.
- Upskill, reskill, or retrain workers in the industries most affected by technological transformations
- Health
Robots were never used in Medical and Health Care sector in Bangladesh. So, this project will be a big step for Bangladesh towards being a developed country. This innovation will add another dimension in this era.
With the increasing need for manpower, the best possible substitute have become humanoid robots, as they are precise, always available and repeatable with high accuracy.
- Pregnant Women
- Children & Adolescents
- Elderly
- Rural Residents
- Urban Residents
- Very Poor
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- Persons with Disabilities
- Bangladesh
- Bangladesh
As the project is still under development, there is no people we are serving.
But in one year we plan to test it in some nearby hospitals and we hope that in five years it spread in the whole country.
In one year we plan to test it in some nearby hospitals and get the results. From that we can enrich the database and improve the model from it.
and we hope that in five years it spread in the whole country.
In a developing country like Bangladesh it could take time to be socially acceptable.
When people will see its advantage, it will be automatically acceptable to them.
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Three. One supervisor and two of his students.
As there are few robotics experts in Bangladesh and only we are working on it.
Hospital and clinics will be our key customers. Individuals can also be customers for their health monitoring.
Tigers Challenge can be a great platform for our project to be famous in the country. Tiger challenge can help us by building a business model for us, by funding us to complete the project and giving us media support.
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