European Partnership Funds Research toward Robot Aides for the Elderly
From: Technische Universitaet Muenchen - 09/13/2010

A team of researchers from 20 European states, the European Union, and
several private enterprises recently launched a project aimed at developing
robots capable of serving as adaptable, interactive, and safe assistants for
older adults. The Adaptable Ambient Living ASsistant (ALIAS) project focuses
on maintaining social networks, warding off feelings of loneliness and
isolation, and increasing activities that could protect cognitive
capabilities. ALIAS, led by the Technische Universitaet Muenchen professor
Frank Wallhoff, helps build social contacts by creating connections to people
and events in the wider world. The ALIAS mobile robots will facilitate daily
life for older adults in a variety of ways, including proactive communication
with speech recognition, video calls, Internet chat between users, online
gaming, reading aloud from newspapers, and assisted mobility. 

Read the entire article at:
http://portal.mytum.de/pressestelle/pressemitteilungen/news_article.2010-09-13.8901386287/

Links:
ALIAS Project
http://www.aal-alias.eu

The Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme
http://www.aal-europe.eu/

Ambient Assisted Living Forum
http://www.aalforum.eu/

Cognition for Technical Systems
http://www.cotesys.org

Frank Wallhoff
http://cotesys.mmk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/isg/users/waf