CLARA AKA CLARC (2016) by Adrián Romero-Garcés , Juan Pedro Bandera , Rebeca Marfil , Martín González-García, Antonio Bandera, Departamento Tecnologia Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, University of Málaga, Spain. CLARA is a socially assistive robot developed within the CLARC project. The goal was to develop a Cognitive Robot for assisting geriatric doctors in real care environments. The top two photos show CLARA with alternative body housings. The last photo shows the adapted SCITOS G3 base without the housing.
"The fundamental service that CLARA had to provide was the ability to autonomously conduct some tests typically included in the CGA [Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment]. Briefly, the robot needed to autonomously conduct a questionnaire-based test (the Barthel test), a test for evaluating the patient’s gait (the get-up-and-go test), and a test for cognitive evaluation (the mini-mental test). However, before conducting the tests, the CLARC robot needed to introduce itself as an accessible and helpful assistant (or, at least, a tool). CLARA was designed to be able to receive and accompany patients and their families to the medical consulting room and, once there, help the physician to capture and manage their data during CGA procedures. To meet these requirements, we had to develop a robot that could talk or navigate between standing people, but whose perceptual resources were mainly designed to interact with a seated person being interviewed in a questionnaire-type test or to capture the gait of a person in a test such as the get-up-and-go test in which the person walks up to four meters away from the robot." – CLARA: Building a Socially Assistive Robot to Interact with Elderly People.
