Prospects of Robots in Assisted Living Environment

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Abstract

From caretaking activities for elderly people to being assistive in healthcare setup, mobile and non-mobile robots have the potential to be highly applicable and serviceable. The ongoing pan-demic has shown that human-to-human contact in healthcare institutions and senior homes must be limited. In this scenario, elderlies and immunocompromised individuals must be exclusively protected. Robots are a promising way to overcome this problem in assisted living environments. In addition, the advent of AI and machine learning will pave a way for intelligent robots with cognitive abilities, while enabling them to be more aware of their surroundings. In this paper, we dis-cuss the general perspectives, potential research opportunities, and challenges arising in the area of robots in assisted living environments and present our research work pertaining to certain application scenarios, i.e., robots in rehabilitation and robots in hospital environments and pandemics, which, in turn, exhibits the growing prospects and interdisciplinary nature of the field of robots in assisted living environment.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number2062
JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
Volume10
Issue number17
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85113653949
ORCID /0000-0003-2571-8441/work/142240507
ORCID /0000-0002-6311-3251/work/142248741

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • FPGA prototyping, VLIW/multi-threaded architectures, low-power processor/memory design, network and graphic processors, compiler optimization techniques, multicore systems, power modeling methodologies, reconfigurable systems