Robot Assistant for Housekeeping and Home Care The scenario of housekeeping and home care robot assistants focuses on the employment of assistive robot systems in everyday domestic settings. There are different motivating factors for the employment of robots in the home: on the one side, comfort factors and a changing societal framework favor the employment of man-made personnel; on the other side, an increasing number of households include inhabitants that require physical support in day-to-day life due to sickness or age. Robot systems will work directly with people in this area, thus placing a central importance on making interactions between people and machines as natural as possible. The robot assistant in the home should work together with the user to perform simple housework. In addition to fetch-and-carry duties, this includes tasks such as setting the table or performing basic cleaning. The robot assistant will have to be able to move through the various rooms of the home without colliding with furniture or people. Robot Assistant for Housekeeping and Home care (design study) Human interaction with the robot assistance system will have as its purpose the commanding and teaching of the robot, but it also offers interesting possibilities of augmenting the performance of the entire system. So far, robot systems have only been able to deal with the high complexity and the wide variability of everyday surroundings to a limited extent. This complexity and variability place high demands on the robot's intelligence and autonomy, demands that cannot be fully satisfied given the current state of the technology. The capability to interact with a human user offers the robot system the possibility of making use of human guidance and support to expand its initial competences. The prerequisite for this, however, is that the communication between robot and user be to some extent natural, so that it will not be considered a burden by the user. Above all else, speech and gestures are a human being's most natural communication channels. In keeping with this fact, the assumption is being made that the robot's interaction partners are able to express themselves through speech and gestures. Interaction with the robot may further occure over versatile (multimodal), portable control devices. Finally, besides speech and gestures, direct physical interaction will take place in some situations, for example when the robot is being led around by the user for instructional purposes.