'Robot for patients to eat' won the first prize in science research students

Seeing many patients, the elderly, the disabled cannot eat and drink by themselves, the male students have created a support machine called Feedbod.

In the afternoon of December 16, at the ceremony of summing up and awarding students of scientific research in 2017, the organizers awarded 9 first prizes to groups of students studying in six fields of natural science, technology and technology. , medicine, agriculture, society and humanities.

In particular, the product of automatic feeders for patients of a group of students in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technical Education in Ho Chi Minh City, caused much attention by uniqueness.

Equipment for feeding food for the sick and the elderly to be successfully tested.(Photo: Student group provided.)

According to Tran Tan Thanh - a group representative, the idea was devised by a student in the group when the family had an ill person who could not take care of themselves, the house was anchored. The device in the mind will then help the patient to eat and drink without relying on the regular support of relatives.

The machine has two main parts: the arm and feed tray. The arm has two control motors, the wheel has a motor and a central microcontroller to control the above motors.

When receiving a signal from the remote control, the microcontroller acts as the three motors running according to the set cycle. Users can adjust the height of the arm in accordance with the body, the food tray can rotate, help the patient choose the dish.

"In addition to providing support for sick people in families and the elderly at nursing homes, it can also help people with complications, Parkinson's disease, polio and disability. We are raising plans for products become mass-produced, serving more people, "said a group representative.

A group of students from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education, received the first prize with food insertion device for patients.(Photo: Manh Tung.)

This year's Student Research Award was led by four agencies of the Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Science and Technology, Central Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations. jointly organized.

The Organizing Committee received 336 scientific research topics participating in the award, selected from thousands of topics from 77 universities and institutes.

The goal of the award is to encourage students to participate in scientific research, apply the learned knowledge to solve practical problems in life.