DOCUMENT RESUME ED 285 374 EC 200 463 AUTHOR Foulds, Richard, Ed. TITLE Interactive Robotic Aids--One Option for Independent Living: An International Perspective. Monograph Number 37. INSTITUTION World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc., New York, NY. REPORT NO ISBN-939986-50-1 PUB DATE 86 NOTE 71p.; A product of the International Exchange of Experts and Information in Rehabilitation. PUB TYPE Collected Works - General (020) -- Reports - Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Assistive Devices (for Disabled); Foreign Countries; *Physical Disabilities; *Rehabilitation; *Robotics; *Severe Disabilities ABSTRACT The monograph is a collection of papers on the role of robotics in rehabilitation. The first four papers represent contributions from other countries: "Spartacus and Manus: Telethesis Developments in France and the Netherlands" (H. Kwee); "A Potential Application in Early Education and a Possible Role for a Vision System in a Workstation Based Robotic Aid for Physically Disable:. Persons" (W. Harwin et al.); "Manipulative Appliance Development in Canada" (W. Cameron); and "Domestic Use of a Training Robot-Manipulator by Children with Muscular Dystrophy in the Netherlands" (A. Zeelenberg). Two U.S. commentaries by G. Fernie and J. Leslie address the above papers. The monograph concludes with eight papers from U.S. contributors, all of which were first presented at the 1986 Conference of RESNA-Asseciation for the Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology. Titles and authors are: "Augmentative Manipulation" (C. Heckathorne); "An Independent Workstation for a Quadraplegic" (C. Fu); "Small Robot Arm in the Workplace to Aid in the Employment of Severely Disabled Persons" (L. Anderson); "Development and Use of a Robotic Arm System with Very Young Developmentally Delayed Children" (L. Hoseit et al.); "Evaluation of the APL/JHU Robot Arm Wort: Station" (W. Seamone, G. Schmeisner); "Development of an Advanced Robotic Aid: From Feasibility to Utility" (L. Leifer et al.); "CALVIN: A Robotic Control Language for Rehabilitation Robotics" (S. Minneman, T. wham); and "Design of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot as a Manipulation Aid for the Severely Disabled" (H. Van der Loos et al.). Appended is an issue of the newsletter, "Rehab Brief," which summarizes the information on robotic aids and the ideas on their place in rehabilitation contained in the monograph. (CL) ****************************k****************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ****k******************************************************************