A Survey of Robots in Healthcare
In recent years, with the current advancements in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots have the potential to support the field of healthcare. Robotic systems are often introduced in the care of the elderly, children, and persons with disabilities, in hospitals, in rehabilitation and wal...
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| author | Maria Kyrarini Fotios Lygerakis Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan Christos Sevastopoulos Harish Ram Nambiappan Kodur Krishna Chaitanya Ashwin Ramesh Babu Joanne Mathew Fillia Makedon |
| author_facet | Maria Kyrarini Fotios Lygerakis Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan Christos Sevastopoulos Harish Ram Nambiappan Kodur Krishna Chaitanya Ashwin Ramesh Babu Joanne Mathew Fillia Makedon |
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| description | In recent years, with the current advancements in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots have the potential to support the field of healthcare. Robotic systems are often introduced in the care of the elderly, children, and persons with disabilities, in hospitals, in rehabilitation and walking assistance, and other healthcare situations. In this survey paper, the recent advances in robotic technology applied in the healthcare domain are discussed. The paper provides detailed information about state-of-the-art research in care, hospital, assistive, rehabilitation, and walking assisting robots. The paper also discusses the open challenges healthcare robots face to be integrated into our society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed2e903b59f7468ca19cb109a716f4552023-12-03T13:38:43ZengMDPI AGTechnologies2227-70802021-01-0191810.3390/technologies9010008A Survey of Robots in HealthcareMaria Kyrarini0Fotios Lygerakis1Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan2Christos Sevastopoulos3Harish Ram Nambiappan4Kodur Krishna Chaitanya5Ashwin Ramesh Babu6Joanne Mathew7Fillia Makedon8The Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAThe Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USAIn recent years, with the current advancements in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots have the potential to support the field of healthcare. Robotic systems are often introduced in the care of the elderly, children, and persons with disabilities, in hospitals, in rehabilitation and walking assistance, and other healthcare situations. In this survey paper, the recent advances in robotic technology applied in the healthcare domain are discussed. The paper provides detailed information about state-of-the-art research in care, hospital, assistive, rehabilitation, and walking assisting robots. The paper also discusses the open challenges healthcare robots face to be integrated into our society.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/9/1/8healthcareroboticscare robotsnursing robotshospital robotsassistive robots |
| spellingShingle | Maria Kyrarini Fotios Lygerakis Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan Christos Sevastopoulos Harish Ram Nambiappan Kodur Krishna Chaitanya Ashwin Ramesh Babu Joanne Mathew Fillia Makedon A Survey of Robots in Healthcare Technologies healthcare robotics care robots nursing robots hospital robots assistive robots |
| title | A Survey of Robots in Healthcare |
| title_full | A Survey of Robots in Healthcare |
| title_fullStr | A Survey of Robots in Healthcare |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey of Robots in Healthcare |
| title_short | A Survey of Robots in Healthcare |
| title_sort | survey of robots in healthcare |
| topic | healthcare robotics care robots nursing robots hospital robots assistive robots |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/9/1/8 |
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