RoboSote­Lab: Robot­ics and smart tech­nol­o­gy in social wel­fare and health­care

The RoboSote­Lab project pro­motes the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using robot­ics and smart tech­nol­o­gy and the co-cre­ation oper­at­ing mod­el that sup­ports the use of robot­ics in the social and health­care sec­tor.

The aim is to cre­ate capa­bil­i­ties and pre­con­di­tions for the emer­gence of new tech­no­log­i­cal solu­tions and to pro­mote the intro­duc­tion of new kinds of tech­nol­o­gy. The project enables com­pa­nies to apply dig­i­tal solu­tions and test the devel­op­ment phase in test­ing and exper­i­men­ta­tion envi­ron­ments cor­re­spond­ing to real­i­ty in the social and health­care sec­tor.

The project will design and imple­ment a research, devel­op­ment, and inno­va­tion envi­ron­ment that uti­lizes robot­ics and relat­ed smart tech­nol­o­gy.

Project dura­tion: 1.1.2024–31.12.2025

Pur­pose and Goals

Enhanc­ing well-being: the project aims to improve people’s well-being by inte­grat­ing tech­nol­o­gy into social and health care.

Cost man­age­ment: by uti­liz­ing robot­ics and smart tech, the project seeks to curb the growth of social and health expen­di­tures.

Address­ing labor short­ages: tech­nol­o­gy adop­tion becomes cru­cial giv­en the aging pop­u­la­tion and labor short­ages.

Home-based care: the focus is on sup­port­ing home-based care for the elder­ly, pro­mot­ing inde­pen­dent liv­ing.

Pro­jec­t’s objec­tive

The project is part of the Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance (OIA) and OuluHealth col­lab­o­ra­tion. The part­ners of the Inno­va­tion Alliance include the City of Oulu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, Edu­ca­tion­al Con­sor­tium OSAO (VET), Nat­ur­al Resources Insti­tute Fin­land, VTT Tech­ni­cal Research Cen­tre of Fin­land, North­ern Ostro­both­nia Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict, and Tech­nop­o­lis Oy.

The project is also part of the OYS­TER – strength­en­ing the dig­i­tal health busi­ness devel­op­ment enti­ty.

The OYS­TER devel­op­ment enti­ty con­sists of the fol­low­ing sub-projects:

1a) Advance­ment of busi­ness-ori­ent­ed RDI activ­i­ties & com­pe­tence

1b) Robot­ics and smart tech­nol­o­gy in health­care

2) Mobile Unit

3) Health & Life Sci­ence Incu­ba­tor

The project aims to design and imple­ment a region­al co-devel­op­ment mod­el uti­liz­ing robot­ics and relat­ed smart tech­nol­o­gy. The invest­ment project intends to design and estab­lish an RDI envi­ron­ment uti­liz­ing robot­ics and relat­ed smart tech­nol­o­gy.

The project is co-financed by the Euro­pean Union, and fund­ing is grant­ed by the Coun­cil of Oulu Region. In con­nec­tion with the OIA col­lab­o­ra­tion, the City of Oulu also par­tic­i­pates in co-financ­ing the project.

Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences is coor­di­nat­ing the project. Edu­ca­tion­al Con­sor­tium OSAO (VET) is par­tic­i­pat­ing in the project imple­men­ta­tion.

Con­tact per­son

Tar­ja Rautio

Project man­ag­er Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences

Tarja.rautio@oamk.fi

Mar­jo-Riit­ta Finnilä
Admin­is­tra­tive Project Man­ag­er
marjo.finnila@osao.fi

Source: OAMK and OSAO