CATARO: a robot that tells caregivers a patient's current non-critical condition indirectly.

Currently, a system is being developed that gathers information about a dementia patient's condition and sends it to a smartphone. Through this system, caregivers in a nursing facility could always check on their patients' current condition and act accordingly. However, they are generally too busy to constantly check their smartphones for "non-critical" information about patients. This research proposes putting a small robot in front of a patient to speak to the patient in a professional manner in reaction to his/her current condition. Caregivers nearby could hear the robot and then determine the patient's condition. When the caregiver is free, he/she could approach the patient and start talking to him/her in the same manner as the robot just did1.