The ROBOCARE Project: Intelligent Systems for Elder Care

This brief article describes the highlights of the first two years of activities of ROBOCARE, an Italian research project aimed at developing intelligent software and robotic agents which can enhance the quality of life of elderly people at home or in a health-care institution. Rather than describing in detail the specific techniques we have developed, for which we point the interested reader to related work, our aim is to focus on some specific issues which our results have given rise to in the context of AI applications in elder care.

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