  One way to allow elderly people to stay longer in their homes is to use of
service robots to support them with everyday tasks. With this goal, we design,
develop and evaluate a low-cost mobile robot to communicate with elderly
people. The main idea is to create an affordable communication assistant robot
which is optimized for multimodal Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Our robot can
navigate autonomously through dynamic environments using a new algorithm to
calculate poses for approaching persons. The robot was tested in a real life
scenario in an elderly care home.
