RobotCare – Network for Robots who Care
RobotCare is a community network of various national and international stakeholders coordinated by the ZHAW in the context of developing service robots for the specific needs of retirement and nursing homes.
Goals / What we offer
Application-centred clarification of the needs in the field of service robotics in retirement and nursing homes and corresponding derivation of the market potential nationally and internationally
Establishing a systematic dialogue between technology developers and researchers as well as stakeholders of the elderly and healthcare facilities, including care and service staff, management and residents and their families
Identification of synergies between national and international universities for future joint initiatives in the field of applied research and development
Current Members / Partnerships
Project lead: Prof. Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Cognitive Computing in Life Sciences
Project/network coordination: Dr. Nicole Gerber, ZHAW Expert Group Hospitality & Service Management
Research partners: Prof. Dr. Yukie Nagai, Kyoto University; Prof. Dr. Kanda Takayuki, University of Tokyo
Care home partners: Betagtenzentrum Emmen AG, Bürgerspital Basel Burgfelderhof, Cadonau, Flury Stiftung, Haus Tabea, Viva Luzern
Industry partners: ABB, ECSPECD, INIVation, NEURA Robotics, Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel, Prophesee, SynSense
News / Current activities
- 2025 Community event in Switzerland (Details to follow)
- 21./22.11.24 open-i 2024 - The Swiss Innovation Platform
- 15.11.2024 Presentation of Unitree G1 «Roboter-Premiere in Winterthur»
- 01.11.2024 Swiss Robotics Day 2024, Bern (exhibitors)
- 02.09.2024 Workshop at the Digital Health Lab Day 2024 «Co-design of Service Robots in Healthcare: Multiple perspectives and stakeholders» in Winterthur
Projects
Unfortunately, no list of projects can be displayed here at the moment. Until the list is available again, the project search on the ZHAW homepage can be used.
Publications
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Sandamirskaya, Yulia; Gerber, Nicole,
2024.
Robotik für Heime – was ist möglich, was nötig?.
In:
9. Fachkonferenz – Das Pflegeheim der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Interlaken, Schweiz, 20.-21. Juni 2024.
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2024.
In:
Robotics in Healthcare – current uses and future challenges, Zurich, Switzerland, 13 June 2024.
Available from: https://harmony-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/4_Robots-as-service-providers_Gerber-Diez.pdf
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Stoop, Pascal; Ratnayake, Tharaka; Toffetti, Giovanni,
2024.
A method for multi-robot asynchronous trajectory execution in MoveIt2 [paper].
In:
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 13-17 May 2024.
IEEE.
pp. 17694-17700.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611498
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Merkle, Thorsten; Jeanfavre, Elsa; Gerber, Nicole; Braun, Lisa; Kornsteiner, Tania; Umbricht, Benedikt,
2023.
In:
40th Annual European Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (EuroCHRIE) Conference, Vienna, Austria, 3-6 October 2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28843
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Reicherzer, Leah; Scheermesser, Mandy; Kläy, Adrian; Duarte, Jaime E.; Graf, Eveline,
2023.
In:
RehabWeek, Singapore, 24-28 September 2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28890