What is Mario?
The MARIO Project concerned the development of a service robot that helps to manage active and healthy ageing.

The main objectives of MARIO were:

• To reduce the challenging problems of loneliness, isolation and dementia in older persons.
• To assist caregivers and physicians in the comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) of subjects at risk to loneliness, isolation or dementia.
• To make MARIO capable of supporting and receiving “robot applications” similar to the developer and app community for smartphones.
• To make MARIO more personable, useful, and accepted by end users (e.g., gain perception of non‐loneliness).