Care-O-bot 4

Care-O-bot 4

Care-O-bot 4 is a versatile, modular service and hospitality robot designed as a mobile assistant for human support in dynamic environments like homes, hotels, restaurants, airports, and retail spaces. Featuring patented spherical joints at the neck and hips for enhanced agility, it enables 360-degree rotations of the head and torso, smooth navigation, and intuitive gestures such as nodding or bending forward while maintaining balance. Equipped with one or two dexterous arms for manipulation, object grasping, and serving trays, it autonomously detects obstacles, picks up items, and delivers goods up to 150 kg on its omnidirectional base. Interaction occurs via a head-mounted touchscreen, speech recognition, gesture detection, and expressive facial animations that convey emotions, fostering friendly, human-like engagement. Its cost-effective sheet metal construction and customizable modules make it adaptable for guiding, concierge services, information provision, and collection-delivery tasks, blending advanced robotics with empathetic design for seamless hospitality integration.

Manufacturer
Fraunhofer IPA
Rating
★★★★☆(4.0)
Launch Year
2015
Price
USD 50,000-150,000
Estimated · Typical for modular service robots
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Robot Specifications

Primary Use Cases
Hotels, restaurants, hospitals, airports, retail, museums, homes, offices
Pet Friendly
Yes
Deployment
autonomous, app, voice, remote, touchscreen
Multi-Robot Coordination
Yes, ROS multi-robot fleet coordination
Industry Sectors
Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail, and Transport.
Customer-facing, delivery, reception, concierge, guiding
Arms (1-2), trays, sensor head, torso joint
Payload Capacity (tray/compartment)
10 kg (arms)

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Q1. What is Care-O-bot 4 and what hospitality or service tasks is it designed to perform?

Care-O-bot 4 is a modular mobile service robot developed by Fraunhofer IPA as a universal helper for everyday scenarios. According to Fraunhofer IPA, it supports tasks like guest guidance, object fetching, and information provision in hotels, restaurants, museums, and airports.

Q2. Which hotels, restaurants, or businesses are currently deploying Care-O-bot 4?

No specific hotels, restaurants, or businesses are documented as currently deploying Care-O-bot 4 in public sources. It remains primarily a research prototype from Fraunhofer IPA with potential applications in service environments.

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