Robots improve hearing aids

Complete system with mobile robots, electronics, audio interface and artificial heads. It is extremely time-consuming to measure how sound behaves in a room. The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the hearing aid manufacturer Sonova have therefore developed robots that can take over this task. This serves to improve hearing aids in rooms with a lot of background noise. A restaurant with a lot of reverberation and background noise is sometimes a problem even with healthy hearing. People with hearing problems are often completely lost because they are unable to filter out the essential acoustic information. Hearing aids can be adjusted according to the environment.