Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 15, 2021 - September 17, 2021
Abandoned babies and baby dumping cases are one of the most crucial problem in Malaysian communities. Despite the existence of the 24-hour helpline and the baby-hatch, the baby dumping cases remained increasing yearly. One of the reasons is the unwillingness of the baby’s parents for their identities might be discovered if they used the helpline or the baby-hatch. Therefore, in this paper, a team consisted of Japanese and Malaysian students in Model Based Creative Design project suggested a solution for this problem by initiating the idea to create an autonomous carrier for saving abandoned babies. This autonomous carrier will move autonomously once the baby was placed safely at one drop point to the closest hospital/orphanage. The idea was then validated by identifying needs and awareness thru survey, searching for similar idea/invention in research paper, journal and patent, designing the concept and prototyping the design of the autonomous carrier. The prototype of the autonomous carrier was named “Keep the Baby Safe. It is hoped that this idea will be utilized and the parents that wished their identity to be remained unknown will be benefitted and will reduce the number of baby-dumping cases in Malaysia.
