Application of social robots in healthcare: Review on characteristics, requirements, technical solutions

L Ragno, A Borboni, F Vannetti, C Amici, N Cusano - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cyber-physical or virtual systems or devices that are capable of autonomously interacting
with human or non-human agents in real environments are referred to as social robots. The …

Digitalizing occupational health, safety and productivity for the operator 4.0

D Romero, S Mattsson, Å Fast-Berglund… - Advances in Production …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Industry 4.0 technologies, such as enterprise wearables, can foster better industrial
hygiene to keep operators healthy, safe, and motivated within emerging cyber-physical …

Hel** people through space and time: assistance as a perspective on human-robot interaction

BA Newman, RM Aronson, K Kitani… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As assistive robotics has expanded to many task domains, comparing assistive strategies
among the varieties of research becomes increasingly difficult. To begin to unify the …

Robots in public spaces: implications for policy design

M Mintrom, S Sumartojo, D Kulić, L Tian… - Policy design and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Rapid advances in digital technologies have allowed robots to become more autonomous
and efficacious than ever before. Future developments in robotics hold the potential to …

Cobotic service teams and power dynamics: Understanding and mitigating unintended consequences of human-robot collaboration in healthcare services

I Shanks, ML Scott, M Mende, J van Doorn… - Journal of the Academy …, 2024 - Springer
In cobotic service teams, employees and robots collaborate to serve customers. As cobotic
teams become more prevalent, a key question arises: How do consumers respond to cobotic …

Human modeling and interaction in cyber-physical systems: a reference framework

D Şahinel, C Akpolat, OC Görür, F Sivrikaya… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the question of how humans can be inherently integrated into cyber-
physical systems (CPS) to reinforce their involvement in the increasingly automated …

Plancollabnl: Leveraging large language models for adaptive plan generation in human-robot collaboration

S Izquierdo-Badiola, G Canal, C Rizzo… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
" Hey, robot. Let's tidy up the kitchen. By the way, I have back pain today". How can a robotic
system devise a shared plan with an appropriate task allocation from this abstract goal and …

Robots with theory of mind for humans: A survey

N Gurney, DV Pynadath - 2022 31st IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a psychological construct that captures the ability to ascribe mental
states to others and then use those representations for explaining and predicting behavior …

The role of adaptation in collective human–AI teaming

M Zhao, R Simmons, P Amaral, F Silva, V Santos - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in the field of collaborative robotics aim to endow industrial robots with
prediction and anticipation abilities. In many shared tasks, the robot's ability to accurately …