Service Assistant to Support the Elderly with Mobility Issues

The Care-O-bot 4 was developed at Fraunhofer IPA as a general purpose mobile service robot. In a continuous effort of exploiting its modularity and potential, we decided to develop new robots with Care-O-bot 4 as a basis. This paper details the process of developing the possible design of such a robot. In this particular case, the robot is envisoned as a mobile companion which is able to help the elderly with their mobility in domestic environment.