Development of a skincare robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2963-2968

  Tsumaki, Yuichi ^a   Kon, Takayuki ^b   Suginuma, Asami ^c   Imada, Kei ^d   Sekiguchi, Akinori ^a   Nenchev, Dragomir N ^e   Nakano, Hajime ^a   Hanada, Katsumi ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c MEC Information Development Co Ltd

^d Vuteq Corporation

^e TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; NURSING; ROBOTICS; SKIN;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NURSING CARE; SKIN LESIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649131499     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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