Assistive Robots for Healthcare and Human–Robot Interaction

Sancarlo, Daniele

doi:10.3390/s23041883

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“…Moreover they can also enhance social interactions, provide cognitive stimulation, and contribute to rehabilitation and physical therapy [40]. -Assistive robots can perform tasks such as delivering medications, reminding individuals to take their medicines, and monitoring changes in behavior or mobility [41]. -Drones, in the future, could be used to deliver medicines or other essential goods directly to patients' home, reducing the need for in-person visits [42].…”

Section: Overview Of the Current And Future Ict For Healthcare Servicesmentioning

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ICT in Nursing and Patient Healthcare Management: Scoping Review and Case Studies

Jayousi,

Barchielli,

Alaimo

et al. 2024

Sensors

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Over the past few decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the fields of nursing and patient healthcare management. This scoping review and the accompanying case studies shed light on the extensive scope and impact of ICT in these critical healthcare domains. The scoping review explores the wide array of ICT tools employed in nursing care and patient healthcare management. These tools encompass electronic health records systems, mobile applications, telemedicine solutions, remote monitoring systems, and more. This article underscores how these technologies have enhanced the efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility of clinical information, contributing to improved patient care. ICT revolution has revitalized nursing care and patient management, improving the quality of care and patient satisfaction. This review and the accompanying case studies emphasize the ongoing potential of ICT in the healthcare sector and call for further research to maximize its benefits.

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Section: Overview Of the Current And Future Ict For Healthcare Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

ICT in Nursing and Patient Healthcare Management: Scoping Review and Case Studies

Jayousi,

Barchielli,

Alaimo

et al. 2024

Sensors

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“…D'Onofrio G et al [13] 2023 Italy Medical robotics offers three key benefits: reducing contact with infected patients to prevent disease spread, increasing clinical efficiency, and minimizing the need for personal protective equipment. The current state of medical robotics plays a pivotal role in addressing these healthcare concerns.…”

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“…Robotics can improve patient care and provider safety in three main ways: by reducing carer contact with infected patients to reduce the spread of infection; by enhancing clinical providers' capacity and efficiency to free them up to focus on critical tasks; and by limiting the number of times providers enter an isolation area, which reduces the need for personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies. To address these problems, the state of the art in medical robotics is summed up in this comment [13]. It makes suggestions for utilizing cutting-edge technologies to facilitate the creation of extremely adaptable and versatile robots in case of an outbreak of infectious diseases in the future.…”

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Human-Robot Collaboration for Healthcare: A Narrative Review

Weerarathna,

Raymond,

Luharia

2023

Cureus

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Robotic applications have often quickly transitioned from industrial to social. Because of this, robots can now engage with people in a natural way and blend in with their surroundings. Due to the lack of medical professionals, growing healthcare costs, and the exponential rise in the population of vulnerable groups like the ill, elderly, and children with developmental disabilities, the use of social robots in the healthcare system is expanding. As a result, social robots are employed in the medical field to entertain and educate hospitalized patients about health issues, as well as to assist the elderly and sick. They are also employed in the dispensing of medications, rehabilitation, and emotional and geriatric care. Thus, social robots raise the standard and effectiveness of medical care. This article explains how patients and healthcare professionals collaborate with robots in the healthcare industry. The objectives of this collaboration are to resolve moral and legal concerns, improve patient outcomes, and improve healthcare delivery. It has a broad range of uses, including telemedicine, rehabilitation, and robotic surgical support. Human-robot interaction is the term used to describe interactions between social robots and people. Many obstacles stand in the way of humanrobot interaction in healthcare, including safety concerns, acceptability issues, appropriateness, usefulness, and the worry that robots may replace human carers. In the end, these difficulties result in a poor adoption rate for robotic technology. As a result, the applications and difficulties of human-robot interaction in healthcare are thoroughly evaluated in this research. This study also reviews future safety prospects from human-robot interaction in healthcare, as well as ethical and usability issues including privacy, trust, and safety, and our aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the use of robots in healthcare, including their applications, benefits, challenges, and prospects, to facilitate a deeper understanding of this evolving field.

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“…Examples of these indexes in robotics are described in previous studies. [25][26][27] Cage-free robots are often referred to as "inherently" or "intrinsically" safe, 28 and this is inspired by the safety regulations and in particular collaborative robot safety requirements such as ISO/TS 15066:2016. 8 Yet it is a misconception that cobots are always safe to work without caging, and it is the collaborative application that must adopt adequate safety measures and features.…”

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Stakeholders’ perspectives on safety-related human–robot collaborative scenarios

Berx,

Brescia,

Aqamarina

et al. 2023

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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Safety plays a key role when implementing collaborative robots (cobots) in human-shared workspace scenarios. Nevertheless, the significance and understanding of safety-related aspects may significantly vary with different stakeholders’ perspectives. In particular, there is often a misconception that cobots are inherently safe with the result of significantly underestimating the need of adopting adequate safety measures and features for the deployment of collaborative robots in industrial and non-industrial frames. Accordingly, this article develops an in-depth analysis of the stakeholders and their stakes in human–robot collaboration in the manufacturing industry with particular attention to the safety aspects. The proposed approach consists of a field study, with an online questionnaire and structured interviews, directed at the main stakeholders. The field study results are presented and compared with insights from two recent explorative studies. Finally, careful analysis and discussion is provided. This research focuses on three topics: (i) the specific phases in the collaborative robot application cycle, (ii) the stakeholders that are involved in each phase, and (iii) the stakes that affect the stakeholders in general, and specifically the role of safety within these stakes. The findings show that awareness of safety issues is still jeopardized between stakeholders. In addition, key stakeholders still significantly underestimate safety-related issues when implementing cobots in new production lines. This implies the need for objective assessment tools that can systematically address and assess all safety-related aspects. This study provides industry practitioners with a broader view of how different stakeholders regard safety-related aspects in the cobot life cycle. This will enable more informed decision-making when implementing cobot solutions and potentially avoid unconsidered safety risks later on. This article also adds to the scant research on the role of each stakeholder in human–robot collaboration.

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Assistive Robots for Healthcare and Human–Robot Interaction

Abstract: Assistive robots are still mostly prototypes that only remotely recall human interactive dynamics [...]

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

ICT in Nursing and Patient Healthcare Management: Scoping Review and Case Studies

ICT in Nursing and Patient Healthcare Management: Scoping Review and Case Studies

Human-Robot Collaboration for Healthcare: A Narrative Review

Stakeholders’ perspectives on safety-related human–robot collaborative scenarios

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