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Robotic Home Assistant Care-O-bot® 3 Product Vision and Innovation Platform

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Abstract

The development of a mobile robot to assist people in their home is a long term goal of Fraunhofer IPA. In order to meet this goal, three generations of a robotic home assistant “Care-O-bot®′′ have been developed so far. As a vision of a future household product, Care-O-bot® 3 is equipped with the latest industrial state-of-the art hardware components. It offers all modern multi-media and interaction equipment as well as most advanced sensors and control. It is able to navigate among humans, detect and grasp objects and pass them safely to human users using its tray. 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.

Keywords

  • robotic home assistant
  • Care-O-bot
  • product vision
  • navigation
  • manipulation
  • object learning and detection
  • safe human-robot interaction
  • fetch and carry tasks

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  1. Fraunhofer IPA, Nobelstr. 12, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Birgit Graf, Christopher Parlitz & Martin Hägele

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  1. Institute of Health Informatics, MMC 912, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street S.E., 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Julie A. Jacko

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Graf, B., Parlitz, C., Hägele, M. (2009). Robotic Home Assistant Care-O-bot® 3 Product Vision and Innovation Platform. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Interaction Methods and Techniques. HCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02577-8_34

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