Resilient Robots for a Resilient Society

Kurzfassung

The past months of the Corona pandemic have shown that seemingly self-evident aspects of our daily lives are less resilient than one would otherwise expect. Especially service personnel in nursing, in hospitals, but also in laboratories for studying the virus are extremely important in the early phase of a pandemic, but at the same time they are particularly vulnerable. In these domains, robots are considered a possibility to minimize contact with pathogenic material. The methods for this have already been under development for some time in space exploration. However, the robots themselves still lack the necessary resilience to respond to faults, errors and failures and thus they cannot be deployed productively yet. This article describes methods to remedy this situation so that robots can become a true pillar of society in the near future.