http://vimeo.com/125558512
Schunk showcases Care-o-bot at Hannover Messe
April 21, 2015
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Schunk, the clamping and gripping specialist, showcased in Hannover Messe Care-o-bot 4, a mobile service robot developed in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute.
https://youtu.be/Hzznru0BDzk
Robot assisted cleaning in office buildings
Published on Sep 3, 2015
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In professional office cleaning business, floor cleaning and waste disposal account for 70% of the daily cleaning efforts. Within the research project AutoPnP a Care-O-bot 3 service robot has been enabled for doing these tasks completely autonomously.
The video features all steps of the cleaning activities. First, the robot is inspecting the room for trash bins and dirty spots at the ground. Then the found trash bin is grasped, cleared into a collection bin and brought back. Following, an autonomous tool change between robot hand and vacuum cleaner is shown. The attached vacuum cleaner is then used to clean the ground.
Publications:
R. Bormann, F. Weisshardt, G. Arbeiter, and J. Fischer. Autonomous dirt detection for cleaning in office environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 1252–1259, May 2013.
R. Bormann, J. Hampp, and M. Hagele. New Brooms Sweep Clean – An Autonomous Robotic Cleaning Assistant for Professional Office Cleaning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015.
https://youtu.be/OwAF8hsO58o
Care-O-bot 4 - Making-of the new service robot generation
Published on Jan 18, 2016
Article "Care-O-bot 4 celebrates its premiere as a shopping assistant"
by Fraunhofer IPA
November 14, 2016
https://youtu.be/CqRbXrCCMoc
Vince Ebert trifft auf Care-O-bot 4
Published on Jul 4, 2017
https://youtu.be/WfmWdl5idvY
Care-O-bot 4 unterstützt Pflegepersonal im Seniorenzentrum beim Austausch von Getränkeflaschen
Nov 12, 2021
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The safety of mobile service robots is essential, especially when they move in public environments. Particularly challenging are applications in the environment of stationary care where the robots get in contact with people who are not familiar with them and who may require special protection. Therefore, in the S³ research project (2018-2021) technologies have been developed that improve the perception and manipulation capabilities of service robots, with a particular focus on safety. The project received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The further development of appropriate software technologies for environment detection, the safe grasping of objects and their integration on the "Care-O-bot® 4" research platform were the focus of the work at Fraunhofer IPA. This enables the robot to reliably recognize people, determine what they are doing thanks to machine learning methods, and adapt its behavior in such a way that everything runs safely. The researchers validated the developed technologies in an exemplary application, which can be seen in the video. In the context of this application, the robot supports the staff of a residential care facility by fetching empty bottles from residents' rooms, taking them to the kitchen of the living area where the staff can refill them, and finally returning them to the residents' room.
Expert contact:
Florenz Graf, Phone: +49 711 970-1286, [email protected]