Robotics home assistant Care-O-bot® 3

Photographer Beri Bieber

German Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, IPA, has released a new prototype of its robotics home assistant Care-O-bot 3. The new home assistant is aimed to support people who need care and will remain independent for longer in their familiar surroundings, but may also be used as an enrichment of day-to-day life for everyone.



The first Care-O-bot® prototype was developed as early as 1998 and is capable of moving safely and reliablyin environments frequented by human beings. Care-O-bot® II, constructed in 2002, was capable of manipulating typical household objects, e.g. for the autonomous execution of fetching and taking tasks.

Care-O-bot® 3 is the latest generation of this successful development series. As a future vision of an everyday household product, it combines numerous innovations from the fields of control,
sensors and kinematics.

The big question is, will this "BigBrotherBot" really fit into the home and life of elderly people, who often live in small homes?
Source: http://www.care-o-bot.de/english