Title :
Robotic home assistant Care-O-bot® 3 - product vision and innovation platform
Author :
Graf, Birgit ; Reiser, Ulrich ; Hägele, Martin ; Mauz, Kathrin ; Klein, Peter
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. of Manuf. Eng. & Autom. (IPA), Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
The development of a mobile robot to assist people in their home is a long term goal of Fraunhofer IPA. As a vision of a future household product, the latest prototype, Care-O-bot® 3, is equipped with the latest industrial state-of-the art hardware components and offers all modern multimedia and interaction equipment as well as most advanced sensors and control. Care-O-bot® 3 has been presented to the public on several occasions where it distributed drinks to the visitors of trade fairs and events. Current developments aim at applying the robot in an eldercare facility in order to support the personnel in their daily tasks.
Keywords :
home automation; mobile robots; service robots; Care-O-bot 3; Fraunhofer IPA; eldercare facility; household product; innovation platform; interaction equipment; mobile robot; multimedia equipment; product vision; robotic home assistant; Collision avoidance; Manipulators; Mobile robots; Navigation; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2009 IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4393-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4394-9
DOI :
10.1109/ARSO.2009.5587059
