IK4-Tekniker uses a robot-guide to present his stand in the BIEMH

The robots are going out of the factories. No longer it is rare to find robots in hospitals, museums and even in our own homes, where help us with the domestic tasks. Conscious of this increasing market, IK4-Tekniker has left in hands of his last robotic development of service, the robot guides, his presentation in the Biennial of Machine-Tool. The robot, guide of the visitors by the stand C-06/18 of IK4-Tekniker situated in the pavilion 1, is a demostrador ideal of the specialisation of the centre in several robotic technologies.

The autonomous navigation endows to this robot guides of the capacity to displace by complex surroundings, occupied by people, without being guided externamente. Therefore, it is able to sail surroundings no especially adapted to his characteristics, a priori unknown, continuously cambiantes and with an important human presence.

The robot is designed for interactuar with the people by means of the fusion of diverse sources of sensory information, but his systems are especially thought to guarantee the hygiene. This is a critical appearance in the robotics of service, since the robots have to move in surroundings in which there are people and interactuar with them of safe form.

The robot guides is endowed of mechanisms of hygiene to distinct levels. In addition to the system of stop of emergency, has of a system of sensors of contact that activate when the robot hits against some element or person. The system detains the robot, that goes back to activate when it leaves to feel the contact.

A unit of this robot, call kTBot, works from the year happened in the Museum Eureka!, where receives to the visitors, the guide by the different rooms and sails of autonomous way interactuando with the people.