Patent ID: 7292911

Claim:
A living assistance system, which instructs a robot to carry out transferring operations on articles so as to assist life, comprising: a first sensing unit for acquiring article attribute information that shows attributes including at least an existing position of the article; a storage unit for, with respect to a group that is a plurality of collections of the articles, storing group-belonging article information that indicates the articles that belong to the group, and successively updating the article attribute information based upon the article attribute information acquired by the first sensing unit; an input unit through which information used for identifying the group and a position of a transfer end of the group is inputted; a conversion unit for, referring to the information used for identifying the group inputted through the input unit and the group-belonging article information stored in the storage unit, converting the information used for identifying the group to article information that belongs to the groups; and a control unit for, with respect to a transferring operation of the converted article, while referring to the article attribute information, automatically generating operation commands for moving to the article-existing position, for holding the article, for moving to the position of the transfer end, and for placing the article, with respect to each of the articles that belong to the group, and outputting the commands to the robot, wherein based upon the operation commands outputted from the control unit, the transferring operation of the article is instructed to the robot to carry out a living assistance.