The Role of Robotics in Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—The Experts’ Meeting at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop [Industry Activities]

Mai, Vincent; Vanderborght, Bram; Haidegger, Tamás; Khamis, Alaa; Bhargava, Niraj; Boesl, Dominik B. O.; Gabriels, Katleen; Jacobs, An; Moon, AJung; Murphy, Robin R.; Nakauchi, Yasushi; Prestes, Edson; R., Bhavani Rao; Vinuesa, Ricardo; Mörch, Carl-Maria

doi:10.1109/mra.2022.3143409

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“…There is a significant lack of awareness and understanding regarding the SDGs within the robotics community and among decision-makers. This knowledge gap is an obstacle to leveraging the contributions of robotics and AI towards achieving the SDGs ( Mai et al, 2022 ). To overcome this challenge, future researchers should prioritize the integration of the SDGs with robotics.…”

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Managing social-educational robotics for students with autism spectrum disorder through business model canvas and customer discovery

Arora,

Sivakumar

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Front. Robot. AI

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Social-educational robotics, such as NAO humanoid robots with social, anthropomorphic, humanlike features, are tools for learning, education, and addressing developmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorder or ASD) through social and collaborative robotic interactions and interventions. There are significant gaps at the intersection of social robotics and autism research dealing with how robotic technology helps ASD individuals with their social, emotional, and communication needs, and supports teachers who engage with ASD students. This research aims to (a) obtain new scientific knowledge on social-educational robotics by exploring the usage of social robots (especially humanoids) and robotic interventions with ASD students at high schools through an ASD student–teacher co-working with social robot–social robotic interactions triad framework; (b) utilize Business Model Canvas (BMC) methodology for robot design and curriculum development targeted at ASD students; and (c) connect interdisciplinary areas of consumer behavior research, social robotics, and human-robot interaction using customer discovery interviews for bridging the gap between academic research on social robotics on the one hand, and industry development and customers on the other. The customer discovery process in this research results in eight core research propositions delineating the contexts that enable a higher quality learning environment corresponding with ASD students’ learning requirements through the use of social robots and preparing them for future learning and workforce environments.

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Managing social-educational robotics for students with autism spectrum disorder through business model canvas and customer discovery

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Sivakumar

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“…This seems to apply to the evolution of medical robotics in Western medicine. For this reason, the robotics community also started to pay attention to sustainability, even in the medical domain, which falls under the 4 th UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targeted for [101,102].…”

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Image-Guided Interventional Robotics: Lost in Translation?

2022

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Interventional robotic systems have been deployed with all existing imaging modalities, in an expansive portfolio of therapies and surgeries. Over the years, literature reviews have painted a comprehensive portrait of the translation of the underlying technology from research to practice. While many of these robots performed promisingly in pre-clinical settings, only a handful of them managed to evolve further, and break through the commercialization boundary, and even fewer reached a wide-scale adoption. Despite the undeniable success of service robotics in general, and particularly in some sophisticated medical applications, image-guided robotics' impact remained modest compared to other surgical areas, especially laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery. This article aims to embrace the stateof-the-art on one hand, and to provide a comprehensive narrative to the situation described, to support future system developers and facilitating the translation from scientific research to applied clinical technology development.

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“…They illustrate that robots can have both positive and negative impacts on the SDGs. Most prominently, by automating dirty, dull, dangerous and repetitive tasks, robots help improve the quality of the work environment for TH employees (SDG 8) (Tuomi et al , 2020) and ensure the health and well-being of people (SDG 3) (Mai et al , 2022), increasing the quality of life of workers. Additionally, by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of TH companies’ operations, robots decrease the consumption of some resources and contribute to their sustainable use (SDGs 2, 6, 7, 12, 13) (Ivanov, 2019), with positive implications for both the present and next generation.…”

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Robots in tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

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2022

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Purpose The purpose of this perspective paper is to investigate the role of robots in tourism’s contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach With a deep analysis of the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets, the authors provide an interpretation on both the positive and negative impacts of robots in tourism towards the achievement of the SDG. Findings For several SDGs, the positive impact of robots in tourism is evident, whereas for others, it can be debated as the adoption of robots can lead to both positive and negative impacts, mostly dependent on how robots will be used. In particular, robots can provide a decent work environment for tourism and hospitality (TH) employees (SDG 8) who perform dangerous tasks while decreasing the consumption of resources (SDGs 2, 6, 7, 12, 13) due to their contribution to a company’s effectiveness and efficiency. In the meantime, robots have some impacts on the environment, both in terms of the use of resources (their manufacturing relies on rare Earth materials and robots are energy demanding) and output, especially for the management of toxic waste (e.g. batteries). Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this perspective paper is the lack of empirical measurement of the effects of robots in tourism on the achievement of the SDGs. However, it is a necessary exploration as a foundation for future research. Practical implications This perspective paper may be useful for robot manufacturers in identifying the positive and negative aspects of robots when designing sustainable robots (in terms of energy efficiency, management of the end-of-life of components, etc.) to conform to the expectations of the SDGs. It can be useful to TH companies when their managers evaluate whether to adopt robots in service operations or not. Social implications This contribution discusses the social implications in adopting robots in TH, specifically in terms of new opportunities for employment and in the substitution of humans in dirty, dull and dangerous tasks. It helps policymakers adopt the best policies for fostering the use of robots in TH with an eye to the environmental and social ramifications of robots. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this perspective paper is one of the first studies to investigate the role that robots can play in achieving the SDGs by TH companies.

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The Role of Robotics in Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—The Experts’ Meeting at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop [Industry Activities]

Cited by 20 publications

References 29 publications

Managing social-educational robotics for students with autism spectrum disorder through business model canvas and customer discovery

Managing social-educational robotics for students with autism spectrum disorder through business model canvas and customer discovery

Image-Guided Interventional Robotics: Lost in Translation?

Robots in tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

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