The Cognitive Assistive Robotic Environments (CARE) Group at Heriot-Watt University, part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, focuses on enabling robotic, autonomous and interactive systems (RAIS) to provide user-centred assisted living support.
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September 28, 2020
Best Paper Award at ICHMS 2020
Paper on human-robot joint action receives Best Paper Award at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS 2020). Congratulations to Sara Cooper, Stuart Gow, Samuel Fensome, Mauro Dragone, and Dimitrios Kourtis.
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September 24, 2020
Edinburgh Innovations Enterprise Initiative Grant for Robobrico
Edinburgh Innovations has awarded one of their Enterprise Initiative Grants for the development of the RoboBrico service robot, a project started by Edinburgh Centre for Robotics students Alexandre Colle, Ronnie Smith, and Scott MacLeod in their spare time. The robot looks to fill a gap in the health and social care assistive technology market, by providing an affordable and highly customisable platform catered to customer needs through co-design. The robot will also be used by Alexandre Colle in the coming year in control studies exploring the role of customisation and modularity in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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August 19, 2020
Preview of Virtual RALT now available
An early preview of Virtual RALT, a simulation of the European Robotics League (ERL) Consumer certified Robotic Assisted Living Testbed is now available for download on the CARE Group GitHub.
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July 14, 2020
HEART-MET Evaluation Plan Now Available
The Healthcare Robotics Technologies - Metrified (HEART-MET) competition evaluation plan is now available.
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July 08, 2020
MobiHealth Deadline Extended to 31st July 2020
The Full Paper submission deadline for MobiHealth 2020 (9th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare) has been extended to 31st of July 2020.
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July 01, 2020
First Remote Access Assisted Living Lab Seeks Collaborators
CARE Group academic Dr. Mauro Dragone is leading the Open Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL) project, which has been featured in several media outlets today. The OpenAAL project is seeking collaborators from the care sector to join the project.
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November 25, 2019
CARE Group at the Digital Health and Care Fest
On the 21st of November, CARE Group joined the Digital Health and Care Fest at the Strathclyde Innovation and Technology Centre in Glasgow, to present their research to the public.
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The CARE Group is affiliated with the Robotics Lab at Heriot-Watt University and with the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, a joint venture between Heriot-Watt University and The University of Edinburgh.