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[Project image] Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly (Pearl)
This project is no longer active.

Heads: Sara Kiesler and Sebastian Thrun
Contact: Sara Kiesler (kiesler@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
MRT Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
(412) 268 6553 (Jim Osborn, Executive Director)
(412) 268 6436 (FAX)

Associated center: MRTC
Associated lab/group: Robot Learning Lab

For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The project PERSONAL ROBOTIC ASSISTANTS FOR THE ELDERLY is an inter-disciplinary research initiative on Personal Service Robots for the elderly, that brings together researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

The goal of our project is to develop mobile, personal service robots that assist elderly people suffering from chronic disorders in their everyday life. We are currently developing anautonomous mobile robot that "lives" in a private home of a chronically ill elderly person. The robot provides a research platform to test out a range of ideas for assisting elderly people, such as Intelligent reminding, Mobile manipulation, Telepresence, Data collection and surveillance, and Social interaction.

If successful, this project could change the way we deliver health-care to the ever-growing contingent of elderly people, and it could significantly advance the state-of-the-art in mobile service robotics and human robot interaction.

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Greg's personal homepage Greg Armstrong Senior Research Technician, CS roboman@andrew.cmu.edu
Tsuhan's personal homepage Tsuhan Chen Professor, ECE (Adjunct) tsuhan@ece.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Cohn Research Scientist (Adjunct)
Dieter's personal homepage Dieter Fox Research Associate, CS dfox@cs.cmu.edu
Sara Kiesler Hillman Professor of CS and HCII, HCII kiesler@cs.cmu.edu
John Langford PhD Student, CS jcl3@andrew.cmu.edu
Dimitris Margaritis PhD Student, CS dm2@andrew.cmu.edu
Michael's personal homepage Michael Montemerlo PhD Student, RI
Joelle's personal homepage Joelle Pineau PhD Student, RI
Nicholas's personal homepage Nicholas Roy PhD Student, RI
Hagen's personal homepage Hagen Schempf Principal Systems Scientist hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
Jamieson Schulte Senior Research Programmer jschulte@cs.cmu.edu
Reid's personal homepage Reid Simmons Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS reids@cs.cmu.edu
Sebastian's personal homepage Sebastian Thrun Adjunct Associate Professor, MLD/CSD/RI (Adjunct) thrun@stanford.edu
Michael Vande Weghe Technical Staff, ICES vandeweg@cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

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