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Care-O-bot 4
Details
Care-O-bot 4 is a mobile service robot designed to help people. It can work in museums or grocery stores to answer questions, or fetch objects as your home robotic butler.
- Creator
- Fraunhofer IPA and Mojin Robotics
- Country
- Germany π©πͺ
- Year
- 2015
- Type
- Consumer, Research
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Did You Know?
The first Care-O-bot 4 to be employed in retail is named "Paul." |
The robot is truly made in Germany: Over 80 percent of its 200-plus parts are from southern Germany. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Touchscreen head. Microphone for speech recognition. Cameras for facial and gesture recognition. Spherical joints around pivot points on hips. One-finger hand with integrated sensors. Modular.
- HEIGHT
- 148 cm | 58 in
- LENGTH
- 72 cm | 28.3 in
- WIDTH
- 72 cm | 28.3 in
- WEIGHT
- 140 kg | 308 lb
- SPEED
- 4.3 km/h | 2.7 mph
- SENSORS
- Mobile base: three safety laser scanners with safety programmable logic controller (PLC). Torso: three 2.5D sensors. Sensor ring with custom sensing configuration including SICK Visionary-T and Intel RealSense.
- ACTUATORS
- Mobile base: six Wittenstein motors. Arms: Schunk PowerBalls (PRL100, ERB145, ERB115). Spherical joint: two Maxon motors.
- POWER
- 40-Ah lithium-ion battery pack, 5 hours of autonomous operation
- COMPUTING
- Intel i7 NUC PCs
- SOFTWARE
- Ubuntu Linux OS, Python control application, Robot Operating System (ROS)
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 23 (Base: 2 DoF; Arm: 7 DoF x 2; Gripper: 2 DoF x 2; Torso Spherical Joint: 2 DoF; Sensor ring: 1 DoF)
- MATERIALS
- Steel, aluminium, copper, 3D-printed parts, silicone mold covers, PMMA, glass.
- COST
- $66,000 to $232,000 (depending on configuration)
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- http://www.care-o-bot4.de