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International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence

DCAI 2018: Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions II, 15th International Conference pp 5–9Cite as

Rassel: Robot Assistant for the Elderly

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Assisting the elderly is today a necessity and a responsibility of our society. As they reach old age they need more assistance and companionship when they eventually live alone. In this context, technology, and cognitive assistants in particular, can help in the task of caring for our elderly. In this work, we have developed an assistant robot for the elderly, called Rassel, that helps to take care of senior people who is living alone, helps them to keep active by recommending custom activities and also helps with their health assistance by monitoring their vital signs and maintaining contact with relatives or emergency contacts if a medical urgency occurs. This robot has been developed and presented in the IBM Country Project ‘Cogs for Good’.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by MINECO/FEDER TIN2015-65515-C4-1-R project of the Spanish government.

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, Spain

    Maite Giménez, Jaume Jordán, Javier Palanca & Jaime Rincon

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Correspondence to Maite Giménez , Jaume Jordán , Javier Palanca or Jaime Rincon .

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  1. Hiroshima University, East-Hiroshima, Japan

    Sigeru Omatu

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia

    Mohd Saberi Mohamad

  3. Departamento de Informatica, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  4. Department of Computer Science, School of Science , University of Salamanca , Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Enrique Díaz-Plaza Sanz

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    José Alberto García Coria

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Giménez, M., Jordán, J., Palanca, J., Rincon, J. (2020). Rassel: Robot Assistant for the Elderly. In: Omatu, S., Mohamad, M., Novais, P., Díaz-Plaza Sanz, E., García Coria, J. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions II, 15th International Conference. DCAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 802. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00524-5_2

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