The research paper “Lio – A Personal Robot Assistant for Human-Robot Interaction and Care Applications” was accepted for two major IEEE publications. The first one is already published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Also, this paper will be presented at IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in October 2020.
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Assistant robot Lio supports elderly people in Alterszentrum Emmersberg in Schaffhausen since January 2020. The main goal of the elderly care home is to provide enough time and care to ensure the well-being of those in need. The elderly care home Emmersberg believes that it is possible by relieving some of the less attractive work or peak workload while using modern technologies and robotics. That is were personal care robot Lio comes in hand.
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With hundreds of thousands of people getting affected by COVID-19 every single day resources of healthcare systems are running out pretty quickly. Robots are ready not only to support healthcare workers in the hospitals but also to assist everyone in preventing the spread of the disease.
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In the freshly published book “Human-Robot Collaboration” by Springer Verlag, F&P Robotics publishes the latest findings on the Lio assistance robot in one of the articles.
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The Lio assistant robot is used for the first time by a paraplegic at home. The test is supported by ParaHelp, a subsidiary of the Paraplegic Foundation – so that Lio can become real help for people with spinal cord injury.
Lio – the professional personal robot has been actively supporting Emmersberg Elderly Care Center in Schaffhausen since January 2020.
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Together with CSEM partners F&P Robotics developed novel printed pressure sensors for the robotic fingers. The core technology to improve robotic object manipulation was presented during the IROS 2019 conference in Macau as well as in CSEM Scientific and Technical Report 2019.
Can an assistant robot do routine work so that committed nurses have more time for residents?
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In the new children’s book “Globi and the Robots” assistant robot Lio has a small but very important appearance.
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The concept of robots in healthcare has spread rapidly in recent years. The first robots are used for the long term. It is no longer a question of whether robots should be used in retirement and nursing homes at all, but how.
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