The system was developed by students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at Ariel University
Tomorrow, 3.12 is the International Day for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: the purpose of this day, announced by the United Nations, is to increase awareness of the benefits of including disabled people in all aspects of political, social, economic and cultural life.
As part of a final project in the mechanical engineering and mechatronics department at Ariel University, three kibbutznik students: Amit Muller (Ein HaCarmel), Oriya Shanon (Sa'ad) and Ahya Bashan (Mashuat Yitzhak) chose to look for a development that would help people.
They turned to the Milbat association, to identify needs for people with physical disabilities. There they brought up the problem faced by people confined to wheelchairs, when they come to open a door and hold it open while they pass. The need raised by the members of the association led the students to search and find a suitable solution in cooperation with the association. The development process was conducted under the guidance of Prof. Zvi Schiller, a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at Ariel University who works to promote the Israeli robotics industry and train a professional and skilled workforce.
The students developed a "door opener for the disabled", a robotic device that helps the wheelchair-bound disabled person open a door and hold it open while he passes through the doorway. The robot is attached to the door by the user, opens the door, holds it open, and on command closes the door and returns to the starting point. The development will make it easier for people with disabilities, young and old, and can become an integral part of their lives.
"I see enormous importance in the use of robotic systems to help others," explains Prof. Zvi Shiler, "engineers need to mobilize their ability, professional knowledge and experience to develop systems that help people. In the department we coined the term 'robotov' - in the sense of a robot that does good for people. I'm proud of our students, who got involved in helping others, putting effort into it, using the knowledge they acquired to help others. We focus on developments for disabled populations, the elderly, children and the sick, and I believe that this is our uniqueness."
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Kudos to the wonderful students of Ariel College, there will be many like you, any invention that offers some kind of solution that can ease the life of a disabled person is blessed.
post Scriptum. Shame on you fan for underestimating such a project.
Fan, it's better if you shut up if you don't have something important to say... great projects surpass the projects of Tel Aviv and Ben Gurin by a lot, the fact that they make an article about them..
Just a shame, a poor and stupid level of projects that I would not expect from an elementary school.
But the straw that broke me was a "portable heart massager" first of all, the amount of iron that is there is a really immobile thing.
Then a stupid student comes or worse, a student in Levi gives a complete idiot lecture, and together they build a pump that moves in a cascade on a pneumatic piston, and they say, wow, we invented a life-saving device.
As a mechanical engineer it pains me to see that our future generation looks like this.