Cosero

Cosero is a cognitive service robot developed by people from Autonomous Intelligent Systems of the University of Bonn. This service robot was launched in 2010 as part of the university’s NimbRo project. The group’s main tasks in developing this service robot include robust navigation in indoor surroundings, object manipulation and intuitive multimodal interaction with humans.

Tests conducted on the Cosero prove that it is worthy for use as a helper robot. There were tests of the robot's understanding of complex speech commands. In other tests, it followed a person, recognized individuals, remembered a map of a certain location, recollected objects’ locations, and retrieved them.

Cosero triumphed at RoboCup 2011, held in Istanbul, where it successfully carried a table while being guided by a person who pushed and pulled the table in the correct directions. It showcased its kitchen skills by turning on a cooking plate, fetching some eggs, and pouring them over into a pan to make a delicious omelet.

Features:

• Eight-wheeled omnidirectional base
• Movable trunk
• Anthropomorphic arms
• Moveable sensor head
• Degrees of freedom: 30
• Equipped with four laser scanners
• Has two cameras
• Uses a time-of-flight camera
• Distance sensors in hand
• Directional microphone