Projet LIFEBOTS Exchange (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project aims enhancing cross-sector, international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the area of social robotics technology for care. Are robots ready for society, and is society ready for robots? How can social robots can be included in people’s lives? Robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector as a potential solution to the current and future challenges faced by the healthcare sector. Due to the global population ageing, by 2035 the world is projected to lack 12.9 million healthcare professionals (WHO: 2013). Social robots may benefit the quality life and wellbeing of patients, their families and healthcare professionals. Evidence and much of the needed knowledge are still lacking. Strong interdisciplinarity and cross-sectorial research and innovation activity is needed. A knowledge hub for social robotics will be created with a threefold aim: (1) To enhance the competencies of involved staff members, refining and focusing their skills; (2) To build a tri-sectoral network involving academia, industry and users of technology, and (3) to create an enduring network that will outlive the grant funding. The core of the project includes some of the strongest actors in international research, SMEs and user organisations, focusing on three activity lines: technological, sociological, care-and-welfare. To be able to understand the impact of introducing social robots in care, the three areas that will be affected by this technical evolution will be researched: (1) care provided as medical practice; this is the care given to patients in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centres and other medical facilities. (2) residential care - this area refers to all care institutions accepting patient/clients as residents: elderly homes, nursing homes, special needs schools for children or adults, etc. (3) family care, investigating how social robots can be implemented in the home, and as a part of domestic life.

Mots clés : social robots, health and care, home care, socially aware navigation, dialogue management, distributed cognitive robotics, domestication of social robots

Participants :
- University of Coimbra (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 36800.0 €
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Corée du Sud) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 32200.0 €
- Caritas diocesana de coimbra (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 27600.0 €
- Northern Norway Regional Health Authority (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 41400.0 €
- Canary technology innovations srl (Roumanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 82800.0 €
- IdMind (Portugal) (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36800.0 €
- Technical University of Košice (Slovaquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 73600.0 €
- European Health Telematics Association (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Compexin sa (Roumanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Co-robotics srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 73600.0 €
- Adhera health slu (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36800.0 €
- University of Geneva (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 9200.0 €
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174800.0 €
- Instituto pedro nunes associacao para a inovacao e desenvolvimento em ciencia e tecnologia (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 115000.0 €