Healthcare robotics

LD Riek - Communications of the ACM, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Healthcare robotics Page 1 68 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | NOVEMBER 2017 | VOL.
60 | NO. 11 review articles THE USE OF robots in healthcare represents an exciting …

A review on the use of mobile service robots in elderly care

P Asgharian, AM Panchea, F Ferland - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Global demographics trend toward an aging population. Hence, there will be an increased
social demand for elderly care. Recently, assistive technologies such as service robots have …

Softgym: Benchmarking deep reinforcement learning for deformable object manipulation

X Lin, Y Wang, J Olkin, D Held - Conference on Robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Manipulating deformable objects has long been a challenge in robotics due to its high
dimensional state representation and complex dynamics. Recent success in deep …

A multimodal anomaly detector for robot-assisted feeding using an lstm-based variational autoencoder

D Park, Y Hoshi, CC Kemp - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The detection of anomalous executions is valuable for reducing potential hazards in
assistive manipulation. Multimodal sensory signals can be helpful for detecting a wide range …

Robotic manipulation and sensing of deformable objects in domestic and industrial applications: a survey

J Sanchez, JA Corrales… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a survey of recent work on robot manipulation and sensing of deformable
objects, a field with relevant applications in diverse industries such as medicine (eg surgical …

Service robots: value co-creation and co-destruction in elderly care networks

M Čaić, G Odekerken-Schröder, D Mahr - Journal of Service …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential roles for service robots (ie
socially assistive robots) in value networks of elderly care. Taking an elderly person's …

Steps toward participatory design of social robots: mutual learning with older adults with depression

HR Lee, S Šabanović, WL Chang, S Nagata… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the results of research aimed at develo** a methodology for the
participatory design of social robots, which are meant to be incorporated into various social …

The design of stretch: A compact, lightweight mobile manipulator for indoor human environments

CC Kemp, A Edsinger, HM Clever… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile manipulators for indoor human environments can serve as versatile devices that
perform a variety of tasks, yet adoption of this technology has been limited. Reducing size …

Voicepilot: Harnessing LLMs as speech interfaces for physically assistive robots

A Padmanabha, J Yuan, J Gupta… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Physically assistive robots present an opportunity to significantly increase the well-being
and independence of individuals with motor impairments or other forms of disability who are …

Assistive gym: A physics simulation framework for assistive robotics

Z Erickson, V Gangaram, A Kapusta… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous robots have the potential to serve as versatile caregivers that improve quality of
life for millions of people worldwide. Yet, conducting research in this area presents …