Locomotec GmbH
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| Address:
Bergiusstr. 15
86199 Augsburg
Germany
www.locomotec.com
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Contact:
Dr. Erwin Prassler
Tel. +49 821 455 159-0
Fax. +49 821 455 159-700
Email: prassler@locomotec.com |
| Year of foundation: 2010
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Number of employees: 6 (fulltime) + 3 (part time) |
| Keywords: Robotics for fitness and health, rehabilitation robotics, consumer robotics, robotic sports companion, mobility aid, mobile manipulation, mobile service robotics, hospital logistics, robots in gastronomy |
| Company profile: Locomotec is a small think-tank in the area of service robotics that was founded with the business objective to develop and commercialize what we call locomotion technology. Our research and technology development activities focus on two application areas: a) the mobility of goods and b) the mobility of humans. Mobility of goods includes the safe and dependable automated transportation as well as the manipulation and handling of objects (mobile manipulation) in unstructured public environments such as hospitals or restaurants or other public facilities. In the area of human mobility we focus on the development of assistive robotic devices whose main purpose and main service is the recovery and improvement of personal fitness and health. |
| Products and Services: |
| Hospital Logistics Robots
Together with its partner Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Univ. of Applied Sciences Locomotec is developing a hospital logistic robot that can be used for various logistic tasks. While competing hospital logistic systems are know to be heavy and high-cost, Locomotec’s hospital logistic robot is small, highly maneuverable and in the first place low-cost. The objective is to offer a system, which costs one fifth of the price of current hospital robotics. |
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| RUFUS a robotic running coach
RUFUS is a novel fitness and health device. RUFUS supports people in performing an optimal outdoor walking or running workout and is an electrically powered, automatically guided three-wheeled vehicle that drives ahead of the runners like a pacesetter and sets the optimal velocity at which the runners should move. RUFUS measures the heart rate of the runners with a monitor that the runners wear on their body. A controller compares the measured heart rate with a set-value and accelerates or decelerates the vehicle in order to minimize the difference. |
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