Guardian is a three-year project that started on the 25th of February, 2020. Coordinator Dr. Henk Herman Nap and researcher Dirk Lukkien from Vilans (...
Interview – Eyes and ears of Guardian care robot
Is care robot Guardian going to relieve caregivers? Developing an advanced robot that supports older people, community nurses and caregivers. That is ...
Beta testing in Geneva
In Geneva, we are currently Beta testing the Guardian system. The goal is to resolve the identified problems on the prototypes, in order to obtain a b...
Co-creation with clients of Zorggroep Noordwest Veluwe
Together with our elderly, informal caregiver and formal caregiver we were part of the team that evaluate the Guardian system. The idea is that a sy...
Guardian beta testing in Italy
The beta test of Guardian started in Italy at the end of September with an information day, which was attended by 3 seniors, 2 of their relatives and ...
GUARDIAN at the EU Robotics forum 2022
The EU Robotics forum is a three-day event where scientists, industry and policy makers meet. There were 458 registered visitors with about 100 from r...
GUARDIAN at the National Forum of Measurements 2022
At September 16, Sara Casaccia, assistant professor at Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM), presented a research work related to the activities...
GUARDIAN robot makes eye contact and is happy to see you
The Misty robot of the AAL Guardian project is a friendly robot who is always happy to see you and always has time for you. The eye contact skill is o...
Personalized communication and language use in Human-Robot Interaction
Customizing multiple communicational variables in Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) has a positive effect on perceived persuasiveness by the end-user....
First tests with Guardian in the homes of seniors
Between March and May 2022 we tested for the first time in Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands the prototype of the Guardian robot with seniors in ...
Fourth consortium meeting
Mid April 2022, the GUARDIAN project team got together in Geneva for the fourth consortium meeting. With the results of Alpha testing with prototype #...
Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) and Emotion
Socially assistive robots have been increasingly discussed as solutions in care and domestic use for the support of senior adults; however, a few of t...