SERVICE ROBOTS Kees van Hee, Henk Zeegers and Michiel van Osch – Rose B.V.
Service robots are coming
In May 2012 a symposium on service robots in healthcare was held at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. At the event experts predicted that service robots will be active within ten years. The focus of the symposium was the completion of the Teleoperated Service Robot project (TSR), which was subsidised by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.
One of the tangible results of the TSR project has been Robot ROSE, which stands for Remotely Operated Service Robot. ROSE is a remotely controlled robot designed to undertake a variety of home care tasks and applications. The robot can assist people in their homes or in care institutions. It is controlled through a home care centre or by the client using remote control. According to Joep de Groot, of CbusineZ
(part of health insurer CZ and partner in the further development and marketing of ROSE), it will take less than ten years for the service robot to be introduced into care. By that time it is expected that the demand for care will have increased so much that service robots will have a big role to play in helping to meet this demand. Not only will they be a solution for the expected shortage of personnel, they will also offer cost reduction opportunities. The business case presented to the symposium delegates indicated that the use of robots will lead to considerable cost
Prof. Dr. Kees van Hee
Kees van Hee gained his PhD in 1978, studying maths, physics and economics at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. From 1978 until 1984 he was director of the consulting bureau AKB. In 1984 he was appointed as professor Computing Science at the TU/e. In 1994 he became managing partner at Bakkenist Management Consultants. From 1999 until 2004 he was partner of Deloitte. In 2004 he became a full time professor again. He is the initiator of the teleoperations principle and also initiator and science director of the TSR project. He is also statutory director of Rose B.V.
‘ROSE is a remotely controlled robot designed to undertake a variety of home care tasks and applications.’
price of service robots could then, in the long-term, be reduced to around 1,000 Euros.
During the symposium, Professor Kees van
Hee (former dean of the department of Mathematics and IT in Eindhoven and involved in the TSR project) presented the following business case.
Source business case Rose BV Home care application – The target group
savings. However, for this to be the case, the robots need to become significantly cheaper. To reach that point Heico Sandee, of RoboNED, mentioned the ‘robotics open platform’ as an important development. This initiative encourages open sources for robotics, which will eventually lead to standardisation, allowing for the modular construction of robots. Theoretically, the
Ing. Henk Zeegers BEc. MBA
Henk Zeegers studied electrical engineering, economics and business administration. He has experience as a researcher, engineer and entrepreneur in the automotive and high-tech industry. He worked for the University of Technology in Eindhoven, Volvo Car, NedCar and TNO. Currently he is a partner of INROADS, a consulting bureau focused on innovation development in the high-tech industry. Together with Kees van Hee he is initiator and general manager of the TSR project and director of the company Rose B.V. With his experience, he is a stimulator of teams to develop new products and markets and to improve innovations within organisations.
here are people needing care at home and the focus is for the service robot to take on as many Activities of Daily Life (ADL) tasks as possible, resulting in home care employees having to travel less, offering an improvement of life for the elderly needing care (as small jobs will be able to be carried out at any time), an increase in the quality of home care (for more can be done) and ultimately allowing the elderly person to be able to live
at home for longer. Care institution application – In care
Dr. Michiel van Osch PDeng
From 2004 until 2008, Michiel van Osch was doctoral student at the University of Technology in Eindhoven and ASML. His doctoral degree was about Model Based Testing of Hybrid Systems, in which he tested a new test theory and prototype development for wafer steppers testing. In 2009, he became Post-doc researcher at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. He has also a master degree in informatics and a professional doctorate in engineering and software development. Together with Kees van Hee and Henk Zeegers he was initiator and architect of the TSR project. Currently he is technical director of the company Rose B.V.
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