Benchmarking of Consumer & Healtchare Robotics
The CARE group hosts international competitions in consumer and healthcare robotics. These competitions aim to bolster research in service robotics for home applications, and to raise public awareness of the current and future capabilities of such robot systems to meet societal challenges like healthy ageing and longer independent living.
The robots are evaluated on functionalities such as object detection, activity recognition, object handover, task-oriented grasping and speech understanding, which are required to complete tasks such as assessing the activity state of a person, delivery items such as medicines to a person and preparing and transporting a drink.
Links
- The European Robotic League (ERL) competition, 2018 Tournament in Edinburgh
- The Healthcare Robotics Technologies - Metrified (HEART-MET) competition
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CARE Group
The CARE Group is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University, the National Robotarium, and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. The National Robotarium and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics are collaborations between Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh.