Locomotec GmbH |
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Address:Bergiusstr. 1586199 Augsburg Germany |
Contact:Dr. Erwin PrasslerTel.+49 821 455159-0 Email: info@locomotec.com |
Year of foundation:2010 |
Number of employees:9 |
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 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 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 service is the recovery and improvement of personal fitness and health.
Products and services:
We are currently teaming up with German und European research partners such as Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg or KU Leuven in order to develop a hospital logistic robot that can be used for various logistic tasks. While competing hospital logistic systems are known to be heavy and high-cost, Locomotec’s hospital logistic robot shall be small, highly maneuverable, inherently safe and above all low-cost. The objective is to offer a system that costs one quarter of the price of current hospital robotics.
RUFUS is a novel fitness and health device that supports people in performing an optimal outdoor walking or running workout. RUFUS 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. It 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. RUFUS will be commercialized by runfun GmbH, a spin-off of Locomotec.