MindBot

promoting good mental health in SMEs

adopting COBOTs

MindBot follows the invitation of the European Commission to spread the word about the role of research and innovation in the initiative. We need to raise awareness about the need for fair and equal access to diagnostics, treatments and vaccines against the coronavirus. The project Dissemination activities will embed this message whenever is possible.

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In the context of automated work, the risk of perceiving low challenges is extremely high for repetitive tasks; to the contrary, experiences of inadequacy may arise in workers exposed to tasks requiring unusually intense or sustained focus of attention and manual precision.

This risk is strong in manufacturing industries where robots are increasingly being introduced, as they are supposed to be efficient, flexible, precise, safe, and able to unload workers from more strenuous works.

Among them, cobots are robots intended to interact directly and safely with humans in a shared workplace. Cobots enable automation within manufacturing in such a way that human workers aren’t replaced; rather, they continue to play an important role in the production operations, being supported by the cobot.

MindBot idea is to support the worker’s motivation

MindBot’s idea is to support the worker’s motivation and engagement within the cobot-worker interaction in a flexible and personalized way, in order to facilitate active and positive job experiences, thereby preventing negative experiences of anxiety or boredom and apathy.

The potential of work as an opportunity for skill implementation and goal pursuit is especially evident when dealing with populations who live in disadvantaged conditions, such as persons who experience mental health disorders.

Project Description

Project team

MindBot’s multidisciplinary team consists of engineers, clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, designers, social workers, occupational therapists, advocacy workers and researchers. All the professionals involved provide their expertise to get work done, to reach project objectives and ensure its success.

Latest News

Mindbot in-person meeting – 7-8 February 2023

Mindbot In Person Meeting

On 7th and 8th February 2023 🗓 , the consortium meeting of Mindbot Project took place in the headquarters of Kuka Robotics KUKA (Augsburg – Germany), one of the project partners.

The research teams involved in the MindBot Project met for the first time, after the state of emergency caused by the Covid19 pandemic, to discuss ongoing developments 📈.

❇ Next steps?
Achieving and concluding planned activities, scheduling field activities and consolidating research lines 💪 ⭐ Special thanks to our collegues of KUKA who hosted the event!⭐

European Robotics Forum 2023

ERF- 2023

⭐During the European Robotic Forum 2023, Mindbot’s research team held the workshop “EMPLOYEES’ MENTAL HEALTH IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION” ⭐.

It was a great opportunity to share the importance of well-being at work, together with colleagues from Empower Project.

#Mentalhealth #CollaborativeRobots #Sisterproject #ERF2023

Brain Innovation Days 2022

Brain Innovation Days

Last week Mindbot project participated at the ⚡ Brain Innovation Days, sharing the device (A)MICO ❕

➡ (A)MICO is a multimodal device designed to improve and make easier the interaction between cobot and operator diagnosed with #autism pectrum disorders (ASD) involved in production lines.
The device explicates the system’s implicit information to make the user aware of the cobot’s activity and gain control of the situation ✔ ✔ .
💥The main goal of (A)MICO is to promote #mentalhealth, facilitate positive job experience and make the workplace more human friendly and accessible for all.💥

European Brain Council #assistivetechnology #mentalhealthatwork

Press Communication

Contact Us

In our new Horizon2020 funded European research project MindBot we are looking for manufacturing companies which are interested in collaborating: our focus is the mental health of workers in the human-robot interaction. This includes factors like stress, over- and underchallenge and motivation. In the project an add-on for cobots is to be developed to improve the well-being of the employees. For this we first need a kind of “baseline assessment” of which influence cobots have on employees today.

Are you interested to participate with your company?

Please contact me!

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