Following the industry revolution and modernization, we are now facing a serious aging society. Modern science and technology have greatly enriched our social life and changed our viewpoint of value. Aging society will emphasize the importance of health and social environment, and thus promote a huge market for health engineering and health service. In the aging society, robotics will not only make their efforts in manufacturing but also contribute to health, medical and social welfare directly, which in turn may change our life and even social economy and culture. The health renaissance century is coming. This paper first introduces the development of human care robot RI-MAN, then proposes to construct a systematic innovation platform for health robots and scientific evaluation system. The paper also presents a systematic structure as well as examples for health robotics and their applications.

health engineering  /  robotics  /  innovation platform  /  evaluation  /  systematics