Investigating the First Robotic Nurses: Humanoid Robot Nightingale and Partners for COVID-19 Preventive Design

Abstract

Responding to these global COVID-19 changes for daily healthcare services clinic, while maintaining safe social distancing, the paper reports the humancentred iterative design with real-fields feasibility inquiries to investigate the first robotic nurse and her partners in Wales. The research adapted the ancient Eastern human nature of seven emotions and six biological wills for the selection criteria and novel design principles for the care robots. We report the preliminary work for integrating, customising, implementing and evaluating three novel robotic nurses: Robot Nightingale, Robot Almeida and Robot Eureka in a care home and a hospital. Bionic Scenarios Definition with 5 merging principles are extracted from the Feasibility Inquiries 1-3. Limitations are discussed from the stakeholders' experiences. Our research has no intension to replace human nurses, but a thoughtful feasibility and interdisciplinary study for bionic robotic nurses for conventional engineers' and practitioners' references.

Robot-Assisted Language Education and Speech Therapy for Children with Cleft Lip and Palate

“…In addition to the development of web-based technologies to aid speech and language therapy, emerging research into AI and robotics has also begun to open up new application areas. Robotics and AI have already been widely explored in education and therapy settings, for example, in speech therapy (Qi et al, 2023;Zhanatkyzy et al, 2019), and in education and assistive technologies for older persons (Chew et al, 2021;Su et al, 2022;Garcia-Sanjuan et al, 2017). Over the past decade, applications of robots for children have also been explored to improve the educational experience of those with disabilities (Ioannou and Andreva, 2019), as classroom aids (Kradolfer et al, 2014), and in language education for children with dyslexia (Mcvey et al, 2022).…”

Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration at Work: A Techno-Anthropological Investigation of Robots Working With Service Staff in Hospitals

“…Additionally, the use of robots in hospitals during the pandemic has helped to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus, as robots are able to perform tasks without risking infection. In general, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robots in hospitals and has highlighted their potential as a valuable tool in healthcare [45][46][47][48].…”