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Human care and service demands will need innovative robotic solutions to make easier the everyday of elderly and disable people in home and workplace environments. The main objective of this work is to develop a new concept of climbing robot for this type of service applications. ASIBOT is a 5 DOF self-containing manipulator, that includes on-board all the control system. The main advantage of this robot is its light weight, about 11 kg with 1.3m reach. The robot is totally autonomous and needs only power supply to be operated. The robot is a symmetrical arm able to move between different points (Docking Stations) of the rooms and, if it is necessary, “jump” to (or from) the environment to the wheelchair. In this way the ASIBOT robot could became a home companion and assistance for numerous people.
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Gimenez, A., Jardon, A., Correal, R., Cabas, R., Balaguer, C. (2006). A Portable Light-weight Climbing Robot for Personal Assistance Applications. In: Tokhi, M.O., Virk, G.S., Hossain, M.A. (eds) Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26415-9_115
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