Probo

Kristof Goris, Jelle Saldien, Dirk Lefeber
2009 Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction - HRI '09  
The concept of the huggable robot Probo is a result of the desire to improve the living conditions of children in hospital environment. These children need distraction and lots of information. In this paper the concept of a new social robot is presented. This robot can be used in hospitals, as a tele-interface for entertainment, communication and medical assistance. Besides the prototype of the real robot, a virtual model has been developed. With user friendly software these models can be used
more » ... s an interface between an operator and a child. That way, Probo becomes a platform for experiments concerning human robot interaction with great opportunities in different disciplines.
doi:10.1145/1514095.1514162 dblp:conf/hri/GorisSL09 fatcat:mu4mwwkjnbd77kiwaz5ffre4re