Under the lead of INCRA, the AgeWell team has published an Open Access article about the outcomes of the focus groups in Italy. The full article can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/18/7400
The AgeWell robot got, together with another robot project of the Wiener Neustadt University for Applied Sciences, the innovation award of the Mechatronic Cluster of the federal state of Lower Austria. We are very happy having won this award and congratulate the FH Wiener Neustadt team. https://www.fhwn.ac.at/news/fhwn-roboter-holen-innovation-award
Our newest publication regarding user involvement in Italy has just been published. https://www.jmir.org/2020/9/e17809/
Check out our new video explaining the AgeWell concept:
The Austrian newspaper “Der Standard” has provided an article about the AgeWell robot in its innovation section: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000116832674/roboter-helga-soll-ein-selbstbestimmteres-leben-im-alter-ermoeglichen
AgeWell will be present at the large science festival in the Vienna City Hall. In more than 50 hands-on stations interested people, escpecially kids, can experience science and technology. The science festival takes place in March, 20th-22nd, 2020.
Our robot was part of a TV report about digital solutions of the aging society as part of the Austrian digitalization strategy: https://www.virtuell-haus.at/digipedia/details/3f23c290-1186-406c-b5e7-08d0edfb6646
In an article in the Hungarian BOOM Magazine, ICT solutions for a healthier life and well-being are discussed also in the context of the AgeWell project. “In a welfare society – and Austria as such – the central issue is how aging citizens feel. This change is not easy as the lack of work creates a drastic vacuum in the lives of many people who can become ill. Our program
AgeWell will be present at the AAL Forum in Aarhus, Denmark next week Sep 23rd – 25th 2019. Visit us at the AIT booth.aalforum.eu/about/aal-2019-aarhus/
After defining and doing market research we have identified the Sanbot Elf as the robot for being used for the project.