Assessing acceptance of assistive social robots by aging adults
A Dutch robotics survey is trying to determine how willing elderly people are to have household help from robots. Decreasing funds and rising costs in healthcare could be offset by using patient care robots. This survey can be used in the future to develop…
Summer course 'Caring robots'
A two week course in robotics, Caring Robots, was developed with the goal of exploring the future of robotics in healthcare. Students focus on learning for one week, then cooperate to try and develop something new for the world of caring robots to help…
