The robot allows clients to access leisure and educational applications, she added.
“On top of that, we also want to solve the issue of limited resources in our centre. We want to increase the efficiency of the use of our staff’s time, where they can actually provide more targeted intervention for clients.”
Temi’s creators RoboSolutions modified its software to suit AWWA’s needs, but staff at the activity centre can also re-programme the robot themselves.
“The idea here is that we want to teach them, to train them up so that they can make changes themselves or they can come up with new ideas,” said RoboSolutions managing director Lim Wen Chyi.
“They can programme the robot in their own way. Whoever is managing the robots will attend some training sessions with us, usually about three to four hours. And the rest of the time, all they need to do is get used to Temi, play with it, try different stuff, and then they can come up with their own creative content.”