Practical evaluation of service robots for support and routine tasks in an elderly care facility

Abstract

By taking over dull routine tasks, service robots can provide the personnel of residential care facilities with additional time for their actual care tasks. Together with the employees of an elderly care facility, possible areas to support care workers have been identified and support scenarios have been developed as part of the project WiMi-Care. On the autonomous transport vehicle CASERO and the household assistant Care-O-bot <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">®</sup> 3, four scenarios were implemented and tested during two practical evaluations.