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Gait Analysis Robot Medical Health Measurement System by Anri Sugihara Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design
Anri Sugihara of Rds acknowledged for medical devices and medical equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Gait Analysis Robot Medical Health Measurement System by Anri Sugihara of Rds, designed for RDS Co., Ltd., has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding Gait Analysis Robot Medical Health Measurement System
Gait Analysis Robot is a medical measurement system for walking motion analysis. The robot carries three-dimensional cameras and follows a subject at a fixed distance. The subject walks back and forth along a flat straight line of ten meters, such as a hospital corridor. The recorded data is sent to a cloud server and analyzed there. The accuracy is comparable to optical motion analysis systems used in research institutes. The aim is to make gait analysis widely available at low cost and to support early detection of diseases, rehabilitation and health maintenance.
About Anri Sugihara
CEO and the design director of RDS Co., Ltd. and the founder and the head editor of HERO X, Japanese web magazine about culture, para-sports, technology, and some.
About Rds
Product design and manufacturing company. Our main bussiness is CFRP product manufacturing for motor sport.
Award Record
With this recognition, Anri Sugihara of Rds is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design Award
The A' Medical Product Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good medical product designs by best brands and manufacturers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to medical product designers, medical equipment manufacturers, biomedical engineers and medical device brands from all countries. Entries typically include stethoscopes, wheelchairs, defibrillators, MRI machines, surgical instruments and prosthetics. Awarded medical product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/medical-product
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/120933
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120933
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120933
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/267084
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Gait Analysis Robot Medical Health Measurement System
- Function
- Medical Health Measurement System
- Category
- Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Health
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Gray, Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- RDS Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Anri Sugihara
- Country
- Japan
- Brand
- Rds
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120933
Credits
- Team
- RDS Ltd., Co., exiii design Inc. Yoshihiro Hirata R2, MAGNET Inc., makesense Inc. and quod, LLC , the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Research Institute in Japan
- Image Credits
- RDS Co., Ltd.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The robot track a subject and send walking analysis data to cloud database, enables measurement of even more items than before, and develops services as big data useful for medical care, rehabilitation, health maintenance and etc. It will be able to help early detection and prevention of diseases. It's a project that developing a system include the robot to perform accurate walking motion analysis widely and inexpensively, which could only be done with an expensive motion capture system.
- Inspiration
- In medical research, it is known walking movements characteristic of patients appear due to various diseases. It has potential to be used for early detection and prevention of diseases and for rehabilitation as new diagnostic means. If accurate motion analysis can be realized at low cost for wide range of items, it will be help for various purposes as a highly reliable medical database and possible to extend healthy life expectancy and greatly contribute to the world-wide super-aging society.
- Realization and Technology
- This project has been advanced independent from the study and development of the measurement system, and is a collaborative project with the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Research Institute in Japan. 3D cameras are mounted on a robot tracks a subject at a fixed distance, and it is possible to accurately measure the walking motion of a subject with the same accuracy as an optical motion analysis system in limited facilities such as research institutes.
- Operation and Interaction
- To record walking movements, the subject only needs to walk back and forth on a flat straight line of 10 m, such as in a corridor in hospitals, and the recorded data is analyzed on a cloud server. It based on the elements derived by machine learning from the accumulated walking data of all disease patients. The project planed to provide through web services for early detection and prevention of diseases, for diagnosis and medical purposes in hospitals and for general health promotion purposes.
- Project Duration and Location
- since October 2019 in Japan and keep on going.
- Keywords
- Medical, Walking, Motion Analysis, Gait Analysis, Robot, Hospital, Diagnosis
