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change in health care, this system is not affordable for the
coming generation.
RADIO is one approach to solve this issue in the future
and with a cost-effective platform in almost all environments.
From home care, to care in a hospital, to care in a nursing
home, the small robot platform can be deployed in all these
environments and be connected to house automation. More
research needs to be done because solutions are required in a
relatively short time.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This project has received funding from the European Union's
Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant
agreement number 643892.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Fynn Schwiegelshohn (Fynn.Schwiegelshohn@rub.de) is an
assistant researcher and chair of the Embedded Systems of
Information Technology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
Germany.
Michael Hübner (Michael.Huebner@rub.de) is the chair
of the Embedded Systems of Information Technology at
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Philipp Wehner (Philipp.Wehner@rub.de) is with the
Application Specific Multi-Core Architectures Group at
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Diana Göhringer (Diana.Goehringer@rub.de) is with the
Application Specific Multi-Core Architectures Group at
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

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