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Bruce MacDonald

Submitted by admin on 18 June 2008 - 5:08pm.
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Dr Bruce MacDonald is the Director of the Robotics Research group and a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are aimed at creating useful robot assistants to help humans.

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b.macdonald@ieee.org
+64 9 373 7599 ext 88157
http://www.ece.auckland.ac.nz/~macdon/

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Submitted by admin on 11 June 2008 - 5:58pm.
Many menial, repetitive and physically demanding tasks performed by healthcare workers could be reassigned to robotic assistance. In addition, robots with excellent interaction capabilities could help enrich the social experiences of patients during hospitalisation.
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Submitted by admin on 10 August 2007 - 12:00pm.

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