Social RoboticsSPRING project reports on ARI humanoid trials in a Paris geriatric day hospital
Patients and companions were broadly receptive to a conversational PAL Robotics robot.
Researchers from the EU-funded SPRING project, coordinated by Inria, posted results from two waves of experiments with PAL Robotics' ARI humanoid at a gerontological day-care hospital in Paris. The robot, running software built during the project, held conversations and gave information to patients and their companions, with acceptability and usability measured across more than 60 users. People were generally receptive, especially when the robot's perception and responses stayed reliable despite clutter and noise. It is one of the more substantial real-world tests of a full-size social robot in European eldercare.
Source: arXiv
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