LIFEBOTS Exchange
Creating a new reality of care and welfare through the inclusion of social robots
Challenge
The project aims enhancing cross-sector, international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the area of social robotics technology for care. Are robots ready for society, and is society ready for robots? How can social robots can be included in people’s lives? Robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector as a potential solution to the current and future challenges faced by the healthcare sector.
Solution
Exchange and training of the personnel of the entities promoting the consortium in Research and Technological Development and Technology Transfer, associated to the main enabling technologies for robotics (field of application of the Social Robots for Health and Well-being proposal).
Objectives, Activities and Results expected / achieved
The core of the project includes some of the strongest actors in international research, SMEs and user organisations, focusing on three activity lines: technological, sociological, care-and-welfare. To be able to understand the impact of introducing social robots in care, the three areas that will be affected by this technical evolution will be researched:
1. Care provided as medical practice; this is the care given to patients in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centres and other medical facilities;
2. Residential care - this area refers to all care institutions accepting patient/clients as residents: elderly homes, nursing homes, special needs schools for children or adults, etc.;
3. Family care, investigating how social robots can be implemented in the home, and as a part of domestic life.
Project Reference
Grant Agreement No 824047Funding
Intervention Region
Slovakia, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, Romania and BelgiumTotal Investment
768.200,00IPN Investment
133.400,00Total Eligible
768.200,00IPN Eligible
133.400,00EC Funding – Total
740.600,00EC Funding – IPN
133.400,00Duration
48 MonthsStart Date
2019-04-01End Date
2023-03-31Approval Date
2018-09-18Consortium
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige UniversitetInstituto de Sistemas e Robotica - Associação
Instituto Pedro Nunes
Compexin SA
Caritas Diocesana de Coimbra
IDMIND - Engenharia de Sistemas, Lda
Technicka Univerzita V Kosiciach
Universite de Geneve
Co - Robotics SRL
Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis
Universitetssykehuset Nord - Norge HF
European Health Telematics Association
Website
http://lifebots.euKeywords
Social Robotics Technology;Assistive technologies;
Social Inclusion;
eHealth.
