Robots for Seniors

Josh Lane is a principal engineer at DreamFace Technologies, LLC and is leading the hardware development and manufacturing effort for the Ryan CompanionBot, a socially assistive robot for seniors with dementia. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Denver in 2013 and his M.S. degree in engineering technology from Purdue University in 2015. He has conducted extensive robotics research over the last five years, initially focusing on Urban Search and Rescue robotics and now shifting to the area of social robotics. In that time, he has successfully developed prototypes for systems aimed at improving human well-being including an eye tracker device to allow brain trauma and spinal cord injury sufferers to more easily use a computer, as well as a serpentine hybrid search and rescue robot for disaster relief and the Ryan Companionbot.