AIMC Topic: Robotics

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Needs and Preferences of Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Taiwan for Companion Robots and Pets: Survey Study.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: In recent years, robots have been considered a new tech industry that can be used to solve the shortage in human resources in the field of health care. Also, animal-assisted therapy has been used to provide assistance, companionship, and ...

Vision-Based Tunnel Lining Health Monitoring via Bi-Temporal Image Comparison and Decision-Level Fusion of Change Maps.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Tunnel structural health inspections are predominantly done through periodic visual observations, requiring humans to be physically present on-site, possibly exposing them to hazardous environments. These surveys are subjective (relying on the survey...

Systematic Literature Review of Realistic Simulators Applied in Educational Robotics Context.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) about realistic simulators that can be applied in an educational robotics context. These simulators must include the simulation of actuators and sensors, the ability to simulate robots and thei...

The introduction of care robots as a leadership challenge in home care facilities in Finland.

Nursing open
AIMS: This paper analyses the factors that influence home care employees' intention to introduce robots.

Comparison of Acceptance and Knowledge Transfer in Patient Information Before an MRI Exam Administered by Humanoid Robot Versus a Tablet Computer: A Randomized Controlled Study.

RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin
PURPOSE:  To investigate whether a humanoid robot in a clinical radiological setting is accepted as a source of information in conversations before MRI examinations of patients. In addition, the usability and the information transfer were compared wi...

Evaluation of the Intact Anterior Talofibular and Calcaneofibular Ligaments, Injuries, and Repairs With and Without Augmentation: A Biomechanical Robotic Study.

The American journal of sports medicine
BACKGROUND: Acute ankle sprains are common injuries. The anterior talofibular (ATFL) and calcaneofibular ligaments (CFL) are the most injured lateral structures. However, controversy exists on the optimal surgical treatment when the injury is both ac...

Get Close to the Robot: The Effect of Risk Perception of COVID-19 Pandemic on Customer-Robot Engagement.

International journal of environmental research and public health
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on customer-robot engagement in the Chinese hospitality industry. Analysis of a sample of 589 customers using service robots demonstrated that the perceived risk of COVID-19...

A review of linkage mechanisms in animal joints and related bioinspired designs.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper presents a review of biological mechanical linkage mechanisms. One purpose is to identify the range of kinematic functions that they are able to perform. A second purpose is to review progress in bioinspired designs. Ten different linkage ...

One-Shot 3D-Printed Multimaterial Soft Robotic Jamming Grippers.

Soft robotics
Soft gripping provides the potential for high performance in challenging tasks through morphological computing; however, design explorations are limited by a combination of a difficulty in generating useful models and use of laborious fabrication tec...

Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling.

Soft robotics
In this work, we proposed an inflatable particle-jamming gripper based on a novel grasping strategy of integrating the positive pressure and partial filling, in which the positive pressure increases the contact area between the gripper and objects, a...