The physical safety risks | The countermeasures |
1) Pepper falls and older adults get involved | Widening the installation area with the ground. Widening the space between the wheels. |
2) Older adults getting caught in Pepper’s joints | Installing pressure sensors on the surface of Pepper’s body. |
3) Pepper becoming uncontrollable · Pepper’s hands and fingers move at high speed, hit to human eyes at high speed. · Pepper’s arms collide with an older adult at high speed. · Older adult caught between Pepper’s arms and joints. · Pepper’s fingers ram into people’s eyes. | Equipping speed-based and contact force-based mechanical safety devices. Wearing goggles. |
4) Pepper’s battery dies on a slope · When the battery of Pepper runs out on the slope, it descends at a high speed due to gravity and collides with people at a high speed. | Speed-based mechanical safety device for the wheels. |