Research Project

RAADICAL: Actividades asistidas por robots en el cuidado diario y la vida

Type

National Project

Start Date

01/09/2021

End Date

31/08/2024

Project Code

PLEC2021-007817

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Staff

Project Description

Project PLEC2021-007817 funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the "European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR"

Consortium:
LEITAT -Coordinator-
Fundación Instituto de Robótica para la Dependencia
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), CSIC-UPC
PAL Robotics


The objective of the project is to help elderly or disabled people to maintain a healthy mental and physical life using intelligent robotics systems. This includes keeping and improving social relationships, have healthy meals and execute daily routines of physical and mental exercises. To achieve this, we propose an intelligent robotic system capable of helping people to communicate, monitor the person and motivate them mentally and physically. A human remote operator can help in case of unhandled events or risk situations in real time.

The robotic system’s main target is the use of it at home by people living alone, but the project will additionally validate its use in care centres. RAADICAL will enhance the capacity of caretakers to help and support more people. Project challenges include all required robot cognitive capabilities to understand user behaviour and be able to communicate naturally and working in an unstructured home environment.