‘Robots That Care’ is an interesting summary piece from New Yorker that came out early this week.
It gives a summary of what studies have been done, and are being done in the field of therapy robots.
Dr. Mataric (University of Southern California), who has been studying the human-robot interaction side of therapy robots, is the main scientist introduced in the article. Some of her studies introduced in the article include the effect of robot’s personality in motivating stroke patients, and effectiveness of human-robot versus human-computer interaction with Alzheimer’s patients.
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