en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Henan Provincial Committee and the Henan Provincial People's Government have issued implementation opinions on deepening the reform and development of elderly care services in the new era. The opinions propose accelerating the empowerment of information technology, continuously improving the level of smart health and elderly care services, exploring the establishment of scientific and technological innovation projects related to elderly care services, encouraging the application of humanoid robots in elderly care institutions, and accelerating the research and development of key technologies such as smart rehabilitation based on brain-computer fusion. Key Technologies.
The opinions specify improving the functions of the elderly care service information platform to promote the matching of supply and demand for elderly care services; establishing a statistical monitoring system for elderly care services to form a unified provincial elderly care service database, and strengthening connections with the national elderly care service information platform and the basic population information database. In September 2025, the Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and six other departments jointly issued a notice soliciting application scenarios for embodied intelligence, explicitly targeting areas such as rehabilitation therapy, emotional companionship, assisted care, and security monitoring in the elderly care field. Information from the Henan Provincial Government portal website shows that the Zhongyu Embodied Intelligence Laboratory is developing an elderly care robot that can provide nursing and emotional companionship services, capable of simulating expressions such as smiling, frowning, and contemplation.
Clinical translation of brain-computer fusion technology in the field of smart rehabilitation has achieved breakthrough progress. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligent Technology, in 2025, the research team, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University and related companies, conducted clinical trials of invasive brain-computer interfaces. A quadriplegic patient achieved mind-controlled operation of a smart wheelchair and a robotic dog through an implanted system. The high compression ratio neural data compression technology and hybrid decoding model developed by the team can improve overall brain-controlled performance by more than 15% even in relatively noisy neural signal environments. Team leader Zhao Zhengtao stated that the second clinical case has expanded from virtual cursor control to real physical peripheral control, helping the patient complete online data annotation work by controlling a computer cursor with their mind.
According to the development goals set by the opinions, by 2027, Henan Province's elderly care service network will be basically established, the supply structure will be optimized and upgraded, and the vitality of the elderly care industry will be enhanced; by 2029, the capacity and level of elderly care services will be significantly improved, and policy mechanisms for the coordinated development of elderly care services and the industry will be continuously improved; by 2035, the elderly care service network will be more robust, with all elderly people enjoying basic elderly care services.
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