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Report To the Multiple Sclerosis Trust On Spritely Mobile Robot.
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REPORT TO THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST ON SPRITELY MOBILE ROBOT Report Authors: M Ali, Harprit Billan-Sall, Julie Brown, Anthony Cornwall, Sharon Ebanks and Denise Harborne Report Dated: 14 September 2001 Terms of Reference We have been commissioned by your organisation to assess the benefits of SPRITELY, the mobile robot developed jointly by the Opus Foundation and the Open University to help people with disabilities maintain their independence and self determination. Summary The increasing advances in technology since the 1970's have seen the introduction of robots primarily within industry to aid production, improving quality and adopting some of the more hazardous roles previously assigned to unskilled personnel within industry. The same robot technology used in industry is beginning to permeate through to domestic life with the forecast for 2000 - 2003 estimated to be 40,000 units deployed throughout homes internationally performing such tasks as vacuuming, lawn mowing and other domestic chores. Further development within this field is also...
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