The Sproutel company developed a robot bear, called Jerry, who suffers from diabetes with the aim of teaching children suffering from type 1 diabetes to handle their blood glucose levels, recognize their symptoms and maintain a healthy diet;All through the game.
In simple terms, diabetes is a glandular disorder typical of the pancreas that does not allow processing food due to lack of insulin.In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin preventing the exact decomposition of blood glucose, so that this condition is treated with the daily insulin administration, but since young children cannot handle an insulin pump, performYour blood glucose check or administer their own injections, parents must apply constant pickets for control and treatment every day.For a five -year -old boy, that is a lot of responsibility.
However, design students created Jerry, the diabetic bear, so that children are able to learn and aware of their illness when taking care of it, feeding it properly, with the right food, checking their glucose and levels of glucose andgiving insulin injections for control.
“This works because it is specifically aimed at children who live with type 1 diabetes. Jerry helps sick children not only to learn from the procedures performed on them daily but also enable them to understand the importance of symptoms and self-self-Be careful, ”said Aaron Horowitz CEO of the Sproutel company.
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Jerry is aimed at children between 3 and 7 years old and their initial mechanics consists in which they can see their blood glucose level on the bear in the bear and administer an insulin injection to any of the five bear ports, in addition, in additionTo be equipped with a food pack of several simple foods such as an apple or cheese, so that the child can feed the bear when it has low levels of sugar.
Horowitz explains that children are able to react to the different symptoms of Jerry and determine if the blood sugar of the bears is too high or too low.
“Jerry has traveled a long way to his first prototype, from a teddy bear with basic robotics and with the eyes of a furby, the new and improved Jerry who comes with scalable software that will make it more complex to give older children aBetter understanding of subtleties and warning signs of your own management, ”he added.
The bear is currently in pre-order at a price of $ 249 and will be launched on November 14, World Diabetes Day.In the long term, the company expects to develop more toys that help children control other chronic diseases such as asthma and obesity.
