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Robot Companions For Citizens: Roadmapping The Potential For Future Robots In Empowering Older People
Prescott1, T., Epton, T., Evers, V., McKee, K., Hawley, M., Webb, T., Benyon, D., Conran, S., Strand, R., Buning, M., Verschure, P., Dario, P., Group, t. (2012). Robot Companions For Citizens: Roadmapping The Potential For Future Robots In Empowering Older People. In: Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development. Prague, Czech Republic.
Abstract
The Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Candi-
date "Robot Companions for Citizens" (RCC) proposes a transformative
initiative, addressing a cross-domain grand scienti c and technological
challenge, to develop a new class of machines and embodied information
technologies, called Robot Companions for Citizens (RCCs) that can as-
sist European society to achieve sustainable welfare. The central premise
of RCC is that to solve many important problems in the real world one
has to be physically instantiated and capable of action; information alone
is not sucient. An important theme is that this new generation of safe
and human-friendly robots could assist in extending the active indepen-
dent lives of older citizens and help compensate for the demographic
shift in the age of EU citizens. In this paper we summarise some of the
main conclusions of the Flagship pilot in relation to developing robot
technologies that can empower older European citizens.
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date "Robot Companions for Citizens" (RCC) proposes a transformative
initiative, addressing a cross-domain grand scienti c and technological
challenge, to develop a new class of machines and embodied information
technologies, called Robot Companions for Citizens (RCCs) that can as-
sist European society to achieve sustainable welfare. The central premise
of RCC is that to solve many important problems in the real world one
has to be physically instantiated and capable of action; information alone
is not sucient. An important theme is that this new generation of safe
and human-friendly robots could assist in extending the active indepen-
dent lives of older citizens and help compensate for the demographic
shift in the age of EU citizens. In this paper we summarise some of the
main conclusions of the Flagship pilot in relation to developing robot
technologies that can empower older European citizens.
Authors
Areas of Expertise
Expressive interaction describes the range of new forms of human-computer interaction that are made available through technologies based on speech, touch and gesture. The opportunities presented by these developments promise to be far-reaching, enabling new forms of interaction with information...
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