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Title
Robotics in healthcare : field examples and challenges / João Silva Sequeira, editor.
ISBN
9783030242305 (electronic book)
3030242307 (electronic book)
3030242293
9783030242299
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-24
Call Number
R857.R63 R53 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.285
Summary
This edited collection is about Robotics in Healthcare. Challenges in the robotics-healthcare tuple are presented through reflections and case-studies, including field experiments. As societies develop, well-being concerns tend to emerge and technologies are pressed to deliver solutions. Robotics and related technologies are currently undergoing an expansion to areas directly related to well-being. Healthcare is probably the most striking example. The book covers rehabilitation and therapeutics topics, social robotics in the healthcare domain, and emerging technologies. The contents are organized along three principal directions. Rehabilitation forms the initial part, including challenges from the multidisciplinary nature of this domain, and current and prospective examples. A second direction points to the importance of having simulation tools where to train the mobility of an endorobot. The third direction focus on social robots, with a rehabilitation flavor, but also aiming at edutainment activities for children in hospitals. The authors in this collective have backgrounds ranging from Engineering to Medicine and from Academia to field work and research. The materials in the book result, directly or indirectly, from their professional experiences, and from European and National R&D Projects, in which the authors have been involved. The book aims at an audience deeply interested in field robotics in Healthcare and with the social concerns about the role of robotics in promoting well-being. The chapters are not overly technical. The challenges, as the case of privacy constraints in social robots, or as connecting a diversity of disciplines, are presented using an accessible language.
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2020).
Series
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 1170.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030242299
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Can a Robot Bring Your Life Back? A Systematic Review for Robotics in Rehabilitation
Smart and Assistive Walker
ASBGo . Rehabilitation robotics: a smart-walker to assist ataxic patients
Mechanical sensing for lower limb soft exoskeletons: recent progress and challenges
A Proposed Clinical Evaluation of a Simulation Environment for Magnetically-Driven Active Endoscopic Capsules
Social Robots as a complementary therapy in chronic, progressive diseases
Developing a Social Robot
A Case Study
Index.
