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In 2014 Cáritas Coimbra took the first steps in working with social robots, through the GrowMeUp project, funded by the European Commission’s H2020 programme. This project developed a robot to support the needs of citizens over 65 in their daily life tasks. Enhancing the dialogue between the person and the robot, alerts for taking medication, […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in the virtual meeting of the Lifebots project, which took place on March 27th. Coimbra was expected to host this meeting, but given the situation in Portugal (and in the world) the consortium gave priority to public health and opted to meet via videoconference. Natália Machado, from Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, participated […]