Evaluating the Potential of Social Robots in Geriatric Healthcare

Social robots will become increasingly widespread in the coming decades. So far, they have only been introduced in a few real-world environments, including some airports, museums, and hospitals. Dr Xavier Alameda-Pineda at Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, and all the partners of the Horizon 2020 SPRING project recently set out to evaluate the potential of social robots in the context of geriatric healthcare.