Recent years have highlighted several challenges in the care sector such as shortages of trained care professionals, precarious labor conditions or lack of investment. HoLLiECares aims to refine a prototype service robot for flexible use and adaptive support of care professionals in hospital settings:

• Identification and realization of tasks which can be delegated to a robot to relieve care professionals
• Development and evaluation of flexible ready-to use hardware and software modules suitable for the healthcare market
• Development of cost-effective solutions for force-sensitive robot control, navigation, object manipulation and multimodel user interaction
• Improvement of robot flexibility by combining motor functions with social interaction via touch, language, gesture and brain interfaces

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