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Company updates, media coverage, interviews and industry news from CarebidetUSA, COHealth and Curaco.
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Published COHealth announcements, research stories and partner coverage. PDF items can be viewed online or downloaded.
Revolutionary Carebidet Enters the U.S. Market
The CES Innovation Award-winning Carebidet enters the U.S. market through COHealth Solutions.
Revolutionizing Elderly Care: The Impact of Intelligent Toileting
A real-world experience highlights the intensity of overnight toileting needs and the role of automated in-bed care.
Transforming Elderly Care: A Comparative Look at Caregiver Physical Demand
Research examines the physical demands of excretion care and the potential impact of care-robot technology.
Waiting Is the Hardest Part
A COHealth perspective on how delays in continence care can affect comfort, dignity, and skin health, and how automated toileting support may help people who remain in bed.
Curaco
Curaco in the News
Recent reporting and translated articles about Curaco, Carebidet technology and automated excretion care. Each published PDF is available to view or download.
Curaco AI Excretory Care Robot Focuses on Integrated Care
Reporting ahead of Korea’s Integrated Care Act describes Curaco’s automated excretion-care technology as a practical home-care option for people with limited mobility and their caregivers.
AgeTech Intensively Fosters the Silver Economy — AI Care Robot
KBS coverage features Carebidet as an AI care robot that can manage excretion, cleansing and drying while a person remains lying down, within Korea’s broader investment in AgeTech.
Domestic Excretory Care Robot Expands Supply to 11 Nursing Homes in Seoul
Following a one-year pilot in two municipal nursing homes, Seoul expanded Carebidet deployment to 11 municipal nursing homes.
AI Robots Are Stepping Up in Harmful Environments
A technology feature includes Curaco among companies developing robotics for demanding care environments.
Lowering Caregiving Demands While Protecting Hygiene and Dignity
MedTech coverage profiles Curaco’s development of robotic excretion care.
Curaco and Bundang Seoul National University Hospital Develop Smart Excretion-Care Model
The article reports that an EMR-linked smart excretion-care system developed by Curaco and Bundang Seoul National University Hospital was selected as a leading cross-ministry medical-device project.
Social Service Investment Fund Makes Its First Investment in Curaco
Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare reports that its Social Service Investment Fund made Curaco its first investment, supporting expanded production and distribution of automated excretion-care technology.
Curaco CEO Lee Hoon-sang: “Care Will Shift from Human Care to Robot Care”
In this interview, Curaco CEO Lee Hoon-sang discusses caregiver shortages and how automated excretion care may reduce repeated diaper-care tasks, prolonged moisture exposure and disposable-diaper waste.
Excretion Care Accounts for Up to 44% of Nurses’ Work
Reporting on a 59-nurse study states that excretion-care duties accounted for up to 43.8% of working time in the settings studied and describes frequent care needs, task delays and physical strain.
Statistics Korea Director Han Hoon Observes a Carebidet Demonstration
Yonhap News documents Statistics Korea Director Han Hoon’s visit to Curaco and his observation of a Carebidet demonstration.
As the Number of Caregivers Diminishes, New Technology Helps Fill the Gap
A television news report examines how scientific and robotic technologies may help address growing care needs and a shrinking caregiver workforce.
The Use of Caring Robots in an Aging Society Is Growing
The article describes growing interest in care robots and profiles Curaco’s automated approach to excretion, odor control, cleansing and drying as an alternative to repeated diaper care.
Seoul Expands Elderly-Care Facilities and Supports Excretion-Care Robots
The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s welfare plan included expanding municipal elder-care facilities and supporting excretion-care robots in public elder-care settings.
Curaco Enters the U.S. Market Through Its Agreement with COHealth
The article announces Curaco’s U.S. distributorship agreement with the consortium now operating as COHealth following a U.S. proof-of-concept program.
Curaco Receives the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy Award
Curaco received the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy Award at the 19th Korea New Growth Management Awards for its technology development and commercialization work.
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