TY - GEN
T1 - Robotic Innovations in Support of the Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19 - DIH-HERO Perspective
AU - Jovanovic, Kosta
AU - Schwier, Andrea
AU - Matheson, Eloise
AU - Xiloyannis, Michele
AU - Rodijk-Rozeboom, Esther
AU - Hochhausen, Nadine
AU - Vermeulen, Brecht
AU - Graf, Birgit
AU - Wolf, Peter
AU - Nawrat, Zbigniew
AU - Escuder, Jordi
AU - Mechelinck, Mare
AU - Sørensen, Birgitte
AU - Boscolo, Paola Roberta
AU - Obach, Michael
AU - Tognarelli, Selene
AU - Jankovic, Milica
AU - Leroux, Christophe
AU - Ferrigno, Giancarlo
AU - Siepel, Françoise
AU - Stramigioli, Stefano
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the conditions of work in healthcare institutions and the quality of patient care around the world. Emerging healthcare robotic technology may facilitate and improve the overall quality of life, as well as the diagnostics, rehabilitation, and intervention services. This paper reports the lessons learned from actions carried out in the implementation of the DIH-HERO project call across Europe for robotic solutions that support healthcare activities. Conclusion remarks are as follows: i) technology pull and the urgent need together accelerate the innovation development and deployment, ii) it takes time to establish safety and legal regulations for the deployment of human-machine devices, so the ethical, safety, and reliability aspects of robotic application need to be carefully considered, iii) technology adoption depends on the trust of the users to the technology, iv) existing robotic technology for prevention, diagnosis, hospital admission, rehabilitation, and intervention is mature enough for the adaptation and deployment, v) unskilled general population should be trained for the usage of robotic technology.
AB - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the conditions of work in healthcare institutions and the quality of patient care around the world. Emerging healthcare robotic technology may facilitate and improve the overall quality of life, as well as the diagnostics, rehabilitation, and intervention services. This paper reports the lessons learned from actions carried out in the implementation of the DIH-HERO project call across Europe for robotic solutions that support healthcare activities. Conclusion remarks are as follows: i) technology pull and the urgent need together accelerate the innovation development and deployment, ii) it takes time to establish safety and legal regulations for the deployment of human-machine devices, so the ethical, safety, and reliability aspects of robotic application need to be carefully considered, iii) technology adoption depends on the trust of the users to the technology, iv) existing robotic technology for prevention, diagnosis, hospital admission, rehabilitation, and intervention is mature enough for the adaptation and deployment, v) unskilled general population should be trained for the usage of robotic technology.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Diagnostic robotics
KW - Interventional robotics
KW - Rehabilitation robotics
KW - Robotics supporting healthcare professionals
KW - Robotics supporting patients
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129321865&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-04870-8_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-04870-8_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85129321865
SN - 9783031048692
T3 - Mechanisms and Machine Science
SP - 375
EP - 382
BT - Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics - RAAD 2022
A2 - Müller, Andreas
A2 - Brandstötter, Mathias
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - 31st International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2022
Y2 - 8 June 2022 through 10 June 2022
ER -