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Robotics in social careRobotics in social care

Robots and autonomous systems, together with artificial intelligence, connected data and digital
infrastructure have the potential to modernize the way in which social and medical care are offered to
the elderly. The Dinsow elder care robot from CT Asia Robotics acts as a personal assistant of many
sorts. Its helps human to take their pills at the right time, tracks their health and automatically answers
incoming calls from family and doctors. The ElliQ is an interactive robot with an integrated tablet. The
ElliQ tracks its user’s pill schedule and connects them to family, friends and medical professionals
through video calls and social media. It acts as a companion, can check the weather and suggest
outdoor activities. The ElliQ learns through machine learning to figure out user’s preferences and
regular habits. It then makes proactive activity recommendations based on what user enjoys most. The
rising costs of care and the need to provide much better levels of support for the ageing population,
these advancing technologies, will help them to live with good health and comfort.

In conclusion, upon addressing the history and the physical ecosystem, it is quite interesting to see
how the world will actually become by the year 2020, with driverless cars, Robotic kitchen and robots
in social care.

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Planning for lanning for Renewable energy systemsRenewable energy systems

We are all well aware that demand for electrical power is rapidly growing and so every effort should
be taken to plan and continue to increase the installed power capacity. With depleting fossil fuels, our
emphasis has naturally shifted to renewable sources, particularly the wind and solar and there is an
ambitious target of achieving 175 GW by 2022. More over, there is also a plan to convert a major
portion the transport fleet to electric vehicles, which will obviously require a huge charging
infrastructure.

At this point, there is also a raising concern that the large wind energy establishments consisting of
number of wind turbine-generator units of MW ratings, produce environmental impact and affect the
local ecosystem. So, care should be taken to ensure that large scale installation of windmills and
associated power transmission lines do not destroy the habitat of birds of that region and their
seasonal movements. Deserts, often considered as waste lands, are locations of spectacular wild life,
and they should not be endangered by our ambitious plan of reaching the target of huge renewable
energy generation. The ecological footprint of an individual wind turbine or solar panel might be
negligible, but massive wind or solar farm require huge swathes of land. Roads are constructed to
carry turbines and earth movers break through the forests or grass lands and alter the landscape,
which are gift of nature.

In this context, one approach could be to popularize small capacity wind power generation, in the
order of 50 -100 kW, and utilize it for supplying isolated loads, such as irrigation of agricultural farms
of few hundred acres. This will enable the expansion of electric vehicle transportation to fulfill the
goal of maintaining eco-friendly environment and obviate the need for large scale speedy
modernization of electricity grid, since these local systems work in isolation, devoid of grid
connection. For such smaller capacity ratings, squirrel cage induction machines can be used as
generators driven by wind turbines, owing to their brushless configuration, robustness, nil
maintenance and low cost. In such stand alone power generating systems, as the load expands, it
would be necessary to add additional generator systems. Such parallel connected generators can be
of different power ratings and may even run at different speeds but resulting in a common terminal
voltage and frequency at the load terminals.

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