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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2019.
Artificial Intelligence on the flight deck : do RoboPilots dream of electric sheep?.
In:
Zürich meets Seoul: «Human Machine Interaction and Artificial Intelligence in Safety Critical Environments», Seoul, South Korea, 2 October 2019.
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Di Natali, Christian; Poliero, Tommaso; Sposito, Matteo; Graf, Eveline; Bauer, Christoph; Pauli, Carole; Bottenberg, Eliza; De Eyto, Adam; O’Sullivan, Leonard; Hidalgo, Andrés F.; Scherly, Daniel; Stadler, Konrad S.; Caldwell, Darwin G.; Ortiz, Jesús,
2019.
Design and evaluation of a soft assistive lower limb exoskeleton.
Robotica.
37(12), pp. 2014-2034.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574719000067
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2018.
Roboter als Therapeuten der Zukunft.
IT for Health.
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Poliero, Tommaso; Di Natali, Christian; Sposito, Matteo; Ortiz, Jesus; Graf, Eveline; Pauli, Carole; Bottenberg, Eliza; De Eyto, Adam; Caldwell, Darwin G.,
2018.
In:
2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) : 24-28 April 2018.
IEEE RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018), Livorno, Italy, 24-28 April 2018.
IEEE.
pp. 559-564.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8405385
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2015.
Morphological control : applied embodied intelligence in medicine, robotics and IT.
In:
Vortrag ML - Meetup ETH, Zürich, 4. August 2015.