Assistive technologies including assistive robots (AT/AR) appear to be a promising response
to the increasing prevalence of older adults in need of care. An increasing number of long …

Social robots are developed to provide companionship and assistance in the daily life of the
children, older, and disable people but also have great potential as educational technology …

Background: Despite the rapid pace of assistive robotics development, adoption of these
has been limited. This raises questions such as: What contributes to this low uptake? What …

A significant proportion of the world population is living with some form of disability. The
most isolated section of disability spectrum are persons with severe speech and motor …

In recent years, society has been growing and aging at accelerated rates. Consequently, it
has been of great interest to develop rehabilitation and gait assistance solutions by medical …

Objective To assess and evaluate the knowledge, concerns, and perceptions of patients
agreeing to undergo treatment in its variable forms and procedures under R&AI in order to …

The two-volume set LNAI 13817 and 13818 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th
International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022, which took place in Florence, Italy …

The goal of this dissertation is to develop a gras** system for assistive robots that can help
people with disabilities and the elderly to perform tasks of daily living. In develo** this …

This paper addresses the use of Model Predictive Control (MPC) method for robotic
manipulation, more specifically for a six-degrees of freedom robotic manipulator that is used …

Object transportation by an assistive tracked robot equipped with an arm constitutes a way to
palliate the autonomy loss of people suffering from cognitive or motor impairments. As …