Rico: extended TIAGo robot towards up-to-date social and assistive robot usage scenarios

TL;DR

This paper presents Rico, a versatile AI-driven mobile robot designed for social and assistive tasks, emphasizing its reliability, multifunctionality, and suitability for diverse scenarios.

Contribution

The paper introduces Rico as an extended TIAGo robot platform tailored for up-to-date social and assistive applications, highlighting its capabilities and prior usage.

Findings

Rico is a reliable platform for social and assistive robotics.

It possesses a wide range of functionalities suitable for diverse scenarios.

Experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness in real-world tasks.

Abstract

Social and assistive robotics have vastly increased in popularity in recent years. Due to the wide range of usage, robots executing such tasks must be highly reliable and possess enough functions to satisfy multiple scenarios. This article describes a mobile, artificial intelligence-driven, robotic platform Rico. Its prior usage in similar scenarios, the number of its capabilities, and the experiments it presented should qualify it as a proper arm-less platform for social and assistive circumstances.