A systematic review of research into how robotic technology can help older people

Shishehgar, Majid; Kerr, Donald; Blake, Jacqueline

doi:10.1016/j.smhl.2018.03.002

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“…The systematic and scoping reviews of care robots (Abdi et al 2018;Pedersen et al 2018;Shishehgar et al 2018) have summarized the types of care robots and how these robots or prototypes have achieved their intended targets based on the results of empirical experiments. Pedersen et al (2018) state that "it is perceived that robotics will provide potential solutions for some of the economic and social challenges of aging populations, acting not to replace health care providers, but to provide support".…”

Section: Effective and Affective Strategies Behind Care Roboticsmentioning

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“…In this article, we focus on care robot applications and prototypes that are designed for personal needs in home environments or for the use of professionals in residential care. These care robots are frequently categorized into monitoring, assistive or social (companion) robots (Sharkey and Sharkey 2012) or, more specifically, into companion, manipulator service, telepresence, rehabilitation, health monitoring, reminder, entertainment, domestic, and fall detection/ prevention robots (Shishehgar et al 2018). So far, there are no multitasking domestic care robots that could replace the human labor of professional or informal caregivers in assisting older people in their everyday activities.…”

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Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance

Aerschot

Parviainen

2020

Ethics Inf Technol

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Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expectations of robots revolutionizing care of older people, the role of robots in human care has remained marginal. The value of world trade in service robots, including care robots, is rather small. We argue that the implementation of robots in care is not primarily due to negative user attitudes or ethical problems, but to problems in R&D and manufacturing. The care robots currently available on the market are capable of simple, repetitive tasks or colloquial interaction. Thus far, also research on care robots is mostly conducted using imaginary scenarios or small-scale tests built up for research purposes. To develop useful and affordable robot solutions that are ethically, socially and ecologically sustainable, we suggest that robot initiatives should be evaluated within the framework of care ecosystems. This implies that attention has to be paid to the social, emotional and practical contexts in which care is given and received. Also, the political, economic and ecological realities of organizing care and producing technological commodities have to be acknowledged. It is time to openly discuss the drivers behind care robot initiatives to outline the bigger picture of organizing care under conditions of limited resources.

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Section: Effective and Affective Strategies Behind Care Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance

Aerschot

Parviainen

2020

Ethics Inf Technol

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“…As the world population of older adults increases toward 24% by 2030, the need for assistive robots in aging societies is increasing . The humanoid robot systems can assist humans with difficult tasks or work in a dangerous environment autonomously .…”

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Humanoid Robot Actuation through Precise Chemical Sensing Signals

Kim

Kaur

Kim

2019

Adv Materials Technologies

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As the need for assistive robots increases in aging societies, various assistive robot systems including humanoid robots have been developed. Humanoid robotic hands are one of the most useful parts to assist humans efficiently. While sensing pressure or temperature from the robotic hands is extensively studied, sensing chemicals is less widely studied despite the significant importance. Here, a unique platform of smartly moving humanoid fingers actuated by chemical sensing is reported. The sensor is printed with disposable and biocompatible cellulose conductive ink materials. Rf intensity change of the sensor with NH4+ membrane depends on NH4+ ion concentration where R² is 0.9576. The smart bending motion of a finger is accomplished by logically programed actuation through detecting the change of interested ion concentration from 0.01 to 1 m at the ion‐selective membrane electrode (ISME) sensor with resulted bending angles from 10° to 67° accordingly. The overall signal‐to‐noise ratio is over 10. This sensing robot concept may be expanded to applications of microrobots which receive external stimulus, judge, and execute the actuation to carry out programed tasks.

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“…Studies of social assistive robotics in elderly care [6], [5], [12], range from "service type robots" providing functional assistance, to "companion type robots" providing affective assistance, with sometimes crosschecks between the two categories [6]. Most studies reported positive effects of companion-type robots on both socio-psychological parametersmood, loneliness, and social connections and communicationand physiological parameters, e.g.…”

Section: Social Robots In Elderly Care: Previous Workmentioning

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Designing Human-Robot Interaction for Dependent Elderlies: a Living Lab Approach

Ting

Derras

Voilmy

2018

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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This paper describes the design and evaluation process of a mobile social robotic solution for elderlies, following a living lab approach. The living lab approach combines the principles of human-centred approach and participatory design. The research question at the heart of this study is whether a proper understanding of needs and participation of stakeholders in the design process ensures usefulness and acceptance of the solution. Informed by fieldwork in a retirement home, a prototype of human-robot interaction has been iteratively designed and evaluated with the participation of users. This HRI design serves as the basis to examine the practical acceptance this social robot interaction, as a first step to a broader reflection about the social acceptability of social robots. The first insights of this study are presented in this paper.

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A systematic review of research into how robotic technology can help older people

Cited by 135 publications

References 71 publications

Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance

Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance

Humanoid Robot Actuation through Precise Chemical Sensing Signals

Designing Human-Robot Interaction for Dependent Elderlies: a Living Lab Approach

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