Akin develops assistive robots

Our social robots help support activities of daily living, social skills, autism, and cognitive support needs.

Our task-support robots with arms were originally developed for the Space Industry, and we have adapted them for home use. These are in pre-clinical trials stage, and we can custom build safe home robots for icare or NDIS participants.

We are also conducting clinical trials on childhood intervention with Westmead Children's Hospital, and are accepting pre-orders for kid-friendly robots.

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Akin assistive robots: a room of social robots, a social robot beside the Akin tablet app, and a task support robot carrying groceries and laundry

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ALY social robot for teens and adults

Hey Aly is a social robot to support activities of daily living.

Aly is voice-enabled and comes paired with a tablet home hub on an Android or Apple tablet, to support organisation of daily life, daily routine, scheduling events, goals, and meal planning.

To support

  • Tracking support and services
  • Communication and social chat
  • Proactive reminders
  • Goal management
  • Activities of daily living like cooking or getting around
  • Health and wellbeing

Key functions

  • A smart calendar to help organise the day that is shared with and can be edited by your core support network (such as support workers and family members).
  • Proactive reminders of events and schedules based on events in your calendar.
  • A goal planner for achieving and updating goals. This can be used for fitness goals, personal goals and financial goals (for support workers: we will soon be adding automated reports for support workers to review their clients’ progress, to save you time from manually writing and reporting achievements and roadblocks in your client’s journey).
  • Daily task lists for anything from packing for the day, to calling the support worker, to cleaning the home, to getting groceries or new clothes.
  • Recognition and activity logging of your support worker through check-in prompts and checklists shown upon arrival (or other notes you would like to leave for them).
  • A chatbot who can help you during the day, from making new events in the calendar, to taking you through each step of cooking a meal at your own pace.
  • A meal planner with a focus on simplicity, taste, health and budget.

The Hey Aly personal AI robot aims to support improved physical and mental health, goal planning and better connection with the circle of care, including support networks, family and friends.

The assistive technologies tablet home hub comes preloaded on all our modalities, including the Samsung A8 tablet, Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy Mobile, used specifically for communicating with the Aly robot and supporting cognitive function.

The device is internet enabled to support the function of the AI. To accommodate participant needs, we can add more apps to support daily living.

DIDI social robot for children

This is under development, but we are taking pre-orders.

The robot is designed to support children to build capacity, and caregivers in learning activities. It can help to set and manage learning goals, schedule events, coordinate your support network, suggest personalised learning activities, and play some interactive word games. Other learning apps are being added over time.

The support for childhood intervention

  • Scheduling and social stories
  • Setting up learning and daily living goals in a visual dashboard
  • Sharing goals and reports with the child's team
  • Simple daily assessments, asking basic questions about child development across core domains and suggesting personalised learning activities
  • Word cards to read words and play word games with your child

Upcoming product releases

  • Read emotional expressions and mirror them
  • Generate social stories and read them
  • Installation of other learning apps on the tablet

These are new robots. They have been built and initial preclinical studies are complete. However, they are still novel and not perfect, and we will continue to improve them on an ongoing basis.

Our Scientific Credentials

  • Development of space robots for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, funded by the Australian Space Agency
  • Clinical trials on AI for autism with Westmead Children’s Hospital and Sydney University
  • Pre-clinical trials on task-support robots with the Spinal Cord Injuries Association of Australia
  • Showcase with LG as a partner