HOBBIT

HOBBIT - The Mutual Care Robot

 Coordinatore TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN 

 Organization address address: Gusshausstr. 27/376
city: Wien

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Markus
Cognome: Vincze
Email: send email
Telefono: 43158800000000
Fax: 4315880000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Austria [AT]
 Totale costo 3˙824˙573 €
 EC contributo 2˙830˙000 €
 Programma FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
 Code Call FP7-ICT-2011-7
 Funding Scheme CP
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-11-01   -   2015-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN

 Organization address address: Gusshausstr. 27/376
city: Wien

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Markus
Cognome: Vincze
Email: send email
Telefono: 43158800000000
Fax: 4315880000000

AT (Wien) coordinator 0.00
2    AKADEMIE FUR ALTERSFORSCHUNG AM HAUS DER BARMHERZIGKEIT

 Organization address address: SEEBOCKGASSE 30 A 28
city: WIEN

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Christoph
Cognome: Gisinger
Email: send email
Telefono: +43 1 40199 1110

AT (WIEN) participant 0.00
3    FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

 Organization address address: N PLASTIRA STR 100
city: HERAKLION

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Zinovia
Cognome: Papatheodorou
Email: send email
Telefono: +30 2810 391522
Fax: +30 2810 391555

EL (HERAKLION) participant 0.00
4    HELLA AUTOMATION GMBH

 Organization address address: ABFALTERSBACH 125
city: ABFALTERSBACH

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Helmut
Cognome: Senfter
Email: send email
Telefono: +43 4846 65 55 8280
Fax: +43 4846 65 55 8279

AT (ABFALTERSBACH) participant 0.00
5    LUNDS UNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c
city: LUND

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Håkan
Cognome: Eftring
Email: send email
Telefono: +46 46 2224096
Fax: +46 46 2224431

SE (LUND) participant 0.00
6    METRALABS GMBH NEUE TECHNOLOGIEN UND SYSTEME

 Organization address address: AM VOGELHERD 22
city: ILMENAU

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Andreas
Cognome: Bley
Email: send email
Telefono: 49367800000000

DE (ILMENAU) participant 0.00

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offer    aal    home    assist    service    robot    accept    usability    older    acceptance    demographic    follow    mutual    hobbit    ageing    care    robots    human   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Ageing has been prioritised as a key demographic element affecting the population development within the EU member states. Experts and users agree that Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Social and Service Robots (SSR) have the potential to become key components in coping with Europe's demographic changes in the coming years. From all past experiences with service robots, it is evident that acceptance, usability and affordability will be the prime factors for any successful introduction of such technology into the homes of older people.

While world players in home care robotics tend to follow a pragmatic approach such as single function systems (USA) or humanoid robots (Japan, Korea), we introduce a new, more user-centred concept called 'Mutual Care'. The intention is to create a possibility for the Human to 'take care' of the robot like a pet. It is easier to accept assistance from a robot when in certain situations the Human can also assist the machine. In turn, older users will more readily accept the help of the HOBBIT robot. Close cooperation with institutional caregivers will enable the consortium to continuously improve acceptance and usability.

In contrast to current approaches, 'HOBBIT, the mutual care robot', will offer practical and tangible benefits for the user with a target price tag considerably below present solutions. Through an interface designed specifically for elderly users, HOBBIT will be able to follow a user and guide a user through the home, assist with getting up and offer alert functions, it will be able to learn user-defined objects and be able to retrieve them. Connection to other AAL equipment is foreseen. With this, HOBBIT will offer the benefit to remain longer in the private home environment, which will justify the expenses. We will insure that the concept of HOBBIT seeds a new robotic industry segment for 'ageing well' in the European Union.

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