Care-O-bot 4
![A robot with a black circular head with two glowing blue eyes, and two white hands on a wheeled base.](jpg/07b0f64a94fcde553f49c7f6f763cdde74b2a14f-2048x1536581a.jpg)
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.
- Creators
- Year
- 2015
- Country
- Germany 🇩🇪
- Categories
- Features
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Did you know?
The first Care-O-bot 4 to be employed in retail is named "Paul."
![A couple walks behind the wheeled robot in a store.](jpg/3ea8a3b5fcf884ac69c1f52bf3d4caa5d684708d-2048x1536581a.jpg)
![The robot holds a flower out to a seated woman.](jpg/f5bab179256aecc7edac053e5830a20350b59637-2048x1536581a.jpg)
More Images
![A robot holds a beer out to one of two seated men.](jpg/ceba06bf7473b059d7a38e52bbdbbfc27c0fc7dd-2048x1536581a.jpg)
![A robot holds a display up to an elderly man taking his blood pressure.](jpg/5ac1c39426d61a658757bc1f96cf81ab226cc29b-2048x1536581a.jpg)
![A display on the robots arm shows a video call to an elderly woman.](jpg/3e1fc2f2329566c674b6d537ccc0b578a9061200-2048x1536581a.jpg)
Specs
- Overview
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.
- Status
Ongoing
- Year
2015
- Website
- Width
- 72 cm
- Height
- 148 cm
- Length
- 72 cm
- Weight
- 140 kg
- Speed
- 4.3 km/h
- 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.
- 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.
- Compute
Intel i7 NUC PCs
- Software
Ubuntu Linux OS, Python control application, Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Power
40-Ah lithium-ion battery pack, 5 hours of autonomous operation
- Cost
- $66,000 to $232,000 (depending on configuration)