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Engineers and Clinicians Unite to Help Children with Disability

At the Center for Humanoid Robots and Bio-sensing (HuRoBs) in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), our research ambition is to contribute to a group of individuals that are inflicted with autism using the commercially available humanoid robot NAO by Aldebaran Robotics. 


Why humanoids and why NAO? Feel free to browse through our team's publications for answers.


Our multi-disciplinary team comprises of engineering researchers, therapists and also experienced clinicians that work together for the same purpose. We believe that engineering and medical knowledge, coupled with the inspiration to help people with special needs; breakthroughs can be made and achieved. We also forge collaboration with The National Autism Society of Malaysia (NASOM) which is currently the biggest organization that caters for the education and care for children with autism in Malaysia in order to engage their students and facilities in this research.

How do robots play their part in helping children with autism? In our study it is important to note that the robot’s function is not to replace therapist but more towards acting as the object or platform to attract, engage and withheld the children’s attention during therapy. Children with autism have been known to respond more to inanimate objects like computers and robots than they do to normal people. Through our pilot study in 2012, we also had proven that the presence of robots had no adverse effects on children with autism.

IEEE Gold Peer Reviewed Articles in GOLDRush quarterly newsletter, pp. 15, June 2012



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