... to Dr.-Ing. Klaus Debes, who was awarded the University Medal of the Technische Universität Ilmenau on 20th January 2020 for his outstanding work in the field of teaching and research at the University and his many years of extremely committed work in the Senate.
Senior participant of long-term user study with socially assistive robots in 20 private homes. The research was part of the successfull SYMPARTNER (www.sympartner.de) project, running from 4/2015 till 6/2018
New socially assistive robot of the SYMPARTNER project (www.sympartner.de) at the the 3rd Future Congress "Human-Machine-Interaction" in the former plenary hall of the German federal parliament in Bonn on 26/27 June 2017.
Our elderly partners from the AWO senior residence Erfurt proudly present their "Robot Tester" certificates, given to them in recognition of their participation as test users (including one final full day of robot service in their homes) for the project Serroga.
The red areas show the areas of capacitive touch sensors mounted to the inside of the plastic cover of the Scitos G3 Robot. These are used for assisted local motion control since pushing the robot passively is not possible.
