Editorial: Assistive and service robots for health and home applications (RH3 - Robot Helpers in Health and Home)
In Choi et al. (2024), the main trends in assistive technologies for healthcare and home environments were analyzed. In that study, assistive technologies were classified into three major groups: physical aid or mobility devices, sensor and monitoring systems, and assistive robots. In an aging socie...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/423785 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/423785 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | assistive robots domestic robots health applications perception |
| Sumario: | In Choi et al. (2024), the main trends in assistive technologies for healthcare and home environments were analyzed. In that study, assistive technologies were classified into three major groups: physical aid or mobility devices, sensor and monitoring systems, and assistive robots. In an aging society, with people living longer and a lack of medical personnel, there is undoubtedly a growing interest in the development and commercialization of robotic systems that are able to provide support at healthcare facilities and home environments (Bajones et al., 2018; Keroglou et al., 2023; Silvera-Tawil, 2024). At healthcare facilities, robots improve the diagnosis and treatment of many different diseases (mental and physical), and they help professional staff be more efficient, with more time for patients. At home, they assist to prevent accidents, and they have the potential to perform different household tasks, keep the users active with cognitive and physical activities, and raise alarms if needed. Assistive robots designed for therapeutic purposes have proven useful in reducing agitation of elderly people and stress of caregivers (Kolstad et al., 2020). One major challenge is the robustness and reliability of these robotic systems, which involve complex technologies and software, and usually operate in highly unpredictable environments (Bajones et al., 2018). Progress in fundamental problems such as object detection and recognition (Thalhammer et al., 2024), navigation (De La Puente et al., 2019a), and grasping (De La Puente et al., 2019b) is achieved every year, but more practical and robust solutions are yet to be found. Human–robot interaction (HRI) is also of utmost importance for the acceptance of such robots (Bajones et al., 2019; Fernández-Blanco Martín et al., 2023). All these topics are of course interconnected since advances in one direction may reveal and help address other kinds of issues (Bajones et al., 2018). This Frontiers Research Topic aims at compiling a general overview of ongoing studies and recent results in these areas, specifically targeted to solve open problems for assistive and service robots in health and home applications. |
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