Emerging digital technologies continues to evolve posing unprecedented opportunities in
health systems globally to improve healthcare services delivery. There has been significant …

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained convincing research ground as a new
research topic in a wide variety of academic and industrial disciplines, especially in …

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is unarguably the biggest catastrophe of the 21st
century, probably the most significant global crisis after the second world war. The rapid …

The agenda of this book chapter is to review existing technologies that aid societal health
protection and recommend some possible approaches which will assist the mentioned …

Traditionally, advances in robotic technology have been in the manufacturing industry due to
the need for collaborative robots. However, this is not the case in the service sectors …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied widely in our daily lives in a variety of ways with
numerous success stories. AI has also contributed to dealing with the coronavirus disease …

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world and impacted multiple layers of our
society. All frontline workers and in particular those in direct contact with patients have been …

The advancement in technology has fostered the prevalence of the Internet of Things (IoT),
which enhances healthcare business quality, offers a seamless customer experience, and …

This article surveys the literature on human–robot object handovers. A handover is a
collaborative joint action, where an agent, the giver, gives an object to another agent, the …

As a result of the difficulties brought by COVID-19 and its associated lockdowns, many
individuals and companies have turned to robots in order to overcome the challenges of the …