Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and
in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the …

In this study, we examined the activities of automated social media accounts or bots that
tweet or retweet referencing# COVID-19 and# COVID19. From a total sample of over 50 …

Humanoid service robots made swift progress in extending a hel** hand to the strained
global healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. This case provides an overview of the …

This paper presents a robot system for healthcare facility environments. Current healthcare
robot systems do not address healthcare workflows well and our goal is to provide …

In this paper, we analyze the use of entertainment services on our healthcare robot system,
and find 1) how long robots were used, 2) which entertainment service was most used, 3) …

In this paper, we introduce a healthcare robot system for older people and its experiments in
private and public spaces. We designed a healthcare robot system and healthcare …

In this paper, we address the question of gathering young people's perceptions about
healthcare service robots. In this study, 65 University students (aged 16-30 years) used our …

Many people suffer from memory loss as they get older. This may lead to severe memory
conditions, where everyday communication and activities for a person become much more …

In this paper, we present a healthcare sensor managing system that manages healthcare
sensor devices in a distributed environment. It is an independent system, but can cooperate …

Robotic software developers may need to use different component-based software
frameworks, such as ROS, OPROS and OpenRTM, for develo** intelligent robots, but then …