Interactive robots for health in Europe: Technology readiness and adoption potential.

Journal: Frontiers in public health
Published Date: Mar 13, 2023

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Social robots are accompanied by high expectations of what they can bring to society and in the healthcare sector. So far, promising assumptions have been presented about how and where social robots are most relevant. We know that the industry has used robots for a long time, but what about social uptake outside industry, specifically, in the healthcare sector? This study discusses what trends are discernible, to better understand the gap between technology readiness and adoption of interactive robots in the welfare and health sectors in Europe.

Authors

  • Britt Östlund
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden.
  • Monica Malvezzi
    Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
  • Susanne Frennert
    Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Internet of Things and People Research Center, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
  • Michael Funk
    Cooperative Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Jose Gonzalez-Vargas
    Neural Rehabilitation Group, Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
  • Kilian Baur
    Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 1, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland. kilian.baur@hest.ethz.ch.
  • Dimitris Alimisis
    European Lab for Educational Technology (EDUMOTIVA), Athens, Greece.
  • Freygardur Thorsteinsson
  • Antonio Alonso-Cepeda
    Department of Technological Innovation/ACCIONA Construction, Madrid, Spain.
  • Guillaume Fau
    Space Applications Services (SA), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Florian Haufe
    Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Massimo Di Pardo
    SPW, Research and Innovation Department, Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), Orbassano, Italy.
  • Juan C Moreno
    Neural Rehabilitation Group, Cajal Institute, Spanish Research Council, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid, 28002, Spain. jc.moreno@csic.es.

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