automatica 2018 - Service Robotics

Published on Jun 21, 2018

Robot:
You haven’t done any sports for a long time - shall we start with
the exercise...?

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin Chair of Robotics and System Intelligence TUM:
The robot is a tool for humans and that’s how we should understand it. We need to take things off people which are potentially dangerous, which are not particularly exciting, and which simply free up our time. Yes, the highest good in our world is time. And robotic assistants can give people more time, because they are a tool with which we can work more efficiently and better: tomorrow’s hammer.

automatica shows what is possible today in service-robotics. There seems to be no limit to the potential use of smart helpers. The demand in agriculture, logistics, in the field of care and medicine is particularly high.

State-of-the-art augmented reality technology coupled with robot controller will also benefit rehabilitation patients in the future. There are even hopes that the RobExReha project will make paralyzed stroke patients fully mobile again.

Martin Gerlich, CFO BEC:
In the field of physiotherapy, a therapist who works with the patient, but we cannot measure the forces that the patient applies. With a robotic system we can measure the forces. So we connect the robot with an arm and make everyday movements, and on the one hand we support the patient and also measure the forces that the patient can apply.

Lio is no longer a dream of the future. The nursing robot will soon support the team in a Swiss nursing home.

Frederik Zwilling, Development Engeneer, F&P Robotics:
Lio can take on many smaller tasks, such as bring and collect jobs, which often prevent the nurse from doing other things. Lio can act as a night watch and with posture detection, for example, see if someone is lying on the ground and help needs to be called... or, for example, clean the table. The possibilities are endless and we are about to add more and more applications.

The biggest challenge for a good service robot seems to be interacting with humans in everyday environments in a natural way. An intelligent service robot like Paul from Mojin can not only make small talk, it even shows the customer the way.

Prof. Sami Haddadin Chair of Robotics and System Intelligence TUM:
What we will see in the coming years in particular is that robotics and AI are networked and woven into a machine intelligence. So that we really give the robots skills to learn, and not just to see but also sensomotor. Hand-eye coordination, I think, will greatly benefit from it. The only way to create acceptance in order for dismantling the barrier between man and machine is to create a future of man and machine.

Robot:
That's it, good job