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SAFE-CARE

Safety-constrained adaptive architecture for robotic eldercare

An integrated architecture for AI-driven elderly support robots — with a deterministic Safety Constraint Gate between proposal and action.

At home

Support at home

Illustrative ageing-in-place atmosphere: a companion-style robot alongside an older adult in a private living setting — SAFE-CARE is designed for this context under Safety Gate constraints.

Illustrative stock imagery — not a product photo or clinical claim.

The challenge

Ageing in place increases fall risk and care complexity, while care robotics remains fragmented across perception, reasoning, and human oversight.

Assistive robot handing a cup to an older adult

Illustrative stock imagery — not a product photo or clinical claim.

The SAFE-CARE answer

Five coordinated layers — perception, digital twin and risk, constrained reasoning (LLM + Safety Gate), action/HRI, and care-network interfaces — designed so the LLM proposes and the gate disposes.

Module and simulation results are reported on the Evaluation page. No living-lab clinical validation study has been performed.

Humanoid care-companion robot

Illustrative form-factor atmosphere — not a product endorsement.

Use cases

Illustrative eldercare robotics scenarios SAFE-CARE is designed to support — always with the Safety Gate between proposal and action.

Fall response

Detect a fall event, escalate risk in the digital twin, propose check-in or alert actions, and only execute what the Safety Gate allows.

Medication reminder with Safety Gate

Schedule and voice reminders for known regimens; the gate blocks unsafe dosing suggestions and routes exceptions to human oversight.

Night check-in

Low-disturbance night rounds: presence and distress cues, quiet prompts, and care-network escalation when thresholds are crossed.

Care-home fleet

Shared robots across a residential care site — task queues, resident context via RCDT, and organization dashboards for staff.

Home ageing-in-place

A single companion form factor in a private home: daily routines, fall awareness, and family/care-org connectivity under constraint.

Research pilot

Instrumented evaluation deployments for universities and living labs — logging, metrics, and gated action policies without clinical claims.

Humanoid Robot

The physical platform

SAFE-CARE runs on humanoid and service-robot form factors — sensors, reach limits, and Safety Gate integration.

Humanoid robot — dominant platform motif
Research and engineering in a modern laboratory setting
Robotics and care research