Robotics in AAL

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Where is the exciting robotic projects and solutions?, who can show and present this. Join the inspiration discussion for the AAL Forum 2010 programme Committee. Convince us, help us.

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The purpose of the track is to present different application areas of robotics where the usefulness based on concrete examples, integrating relevant stakeholder perspectives in order to visualise the potential impact and road to a future market. key framing conditions such as ethical issues, safety, user acceptance, business models etc should be addressed for each of the areas.
• Overview – market perspective
• Social robots
• Rehabilitation
• ADL robots (service robots)
• Care/wellness robots
• Robots in the workspace (working life)
• Occupational therapist angle
• Ethics / markets

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European Assistive Robots - success or failure?

iRobot CEO Colin Angel claimed recently in Wired that there is no good business model for a robot servant. Nobody wants to pay massive amounts of cash for the…Continue

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Comment by Stieger Franz on August 15, 2010 at 13:46: We will try to establish a natural speech communication between elder people and a robot based on the open source speech recognition simon and a robotplatform of Metralabs. This is an ECHORD Project between "simon listens" a non profit research organization and the ARTS Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Comment by René Hempel on April 23, 2010 at 8:45: Maybe you're interested in these projects also:

KSERA - Knowledgeable Service Robots for Ageing - http://www.ksera-project.eu/ - 02/01/2010 to 01/31/2013

PORTASOR - A New Generation of Portable Robotic Arms with soft Grabbers on the Basis of flexible and fluid Hinges to support daily Assistance and Service Tasks - http://www.mstonline.de/foerderung/projektliste/printable_pdf?vb_nr... (german, for an english description and some pictures, please visit http://www.iai.fzk.de/www-extern/index.php?id=1858&L=1) - 08/01/2006 to 11/30/2011

Comment by Claus F. Nielsen on April 22, 2010 at 18:05: Hi Ad.. thx a lot. Sofia from eVia already suggested this project. Do you know if the can they bring anything "alive" for our fun park ??

Comment by Ad van Berlo on April 22, 2010 at 17:50: The panel must have finished in the mean time. So let me mention another interesting project that we could present: CompanionAble. This IP is more than 2 years underway of the in total 4 years. We aim at integrating a social robot with a smart home environment. The nice thing is that one can take both advantages from the fixed and mobile smart environment. For more information: www.companionable.net

Comment by René Hempel on April 22, 2010 at 15:08: No, unfortunately I am not at the conference.

Comment by Claus F. Nielsen on April 22, 2010 at 15:07: I am in the Panel with them right now at the conference. Dont mention that i am discussing here, when i should pay attention :) I will ask them directly. Are you here??

Comment by René Hempel on April 22, 2010 at 15:05: The Care-o-bot is indeed an interesting project. If you want to know more about it, visit http://www.care-o-bot.de/; this is a webpage of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. On the webpage you will find additional information including brochures, pictures and videos.

What information do you need about WiMiCare? Maybe I can help...

Comment by Claus F. Nielsen on April 22, 2010 at 14:45: Just heard a presentation in Berlin at the the German Federal Ministrys' Future of Services conference , where the Care-O-Bot. It was shown in German news last night -. Raises a lot of questions about time to market, ethical issues, how it can be adapted to real life settings. See more information here: http://www.wimi-care.de/index.html .

Could be a possible candidate for a presentation. Does anybody have more information about this project. ???

Comment by Claus F. Nielsen on March 11, 2010 at 11:01: Dear Cecilio... Pls. send me more information. We plan robotics in the Odense Forum. Soon we will send up a draft for presenters.
Claus, AAL Forum 2010 Chair