Kitchen extension robot module for elderly housing

Abstract

Recently, public housing are rebuilt for the elderly in the center of a city. The main purposes of rebuilding are flatting floors, installation of handrails, and expansion of bathroom and toilet for people using wheelchair. Because giving priority to them, spaces for kitchen and dining room are very limited. The kitchen doesn't have enough cooking and storage space; and dining room doesn't have space for dining table. In this study, we propose a robot module that can expand spaces for cooking, store electric appliances, cooking tools and tableware, and transform into the dining table.