Robotic assistive technology is today widely used in rehabilitation. Social assistive robotics
(SAR) is one of the developing areas of research with potential advantages for areas …

The uncanny valley posits that very human‐like robots are unsettling, a phenomenon amply
demonstrated in adults but unexplored in children. Two hundred forty 3‐to 18‐year‐olds …

NAOTherapist is a cognitive robotic architecture whose main goal is to develop non-contact
upper-limb rehabilitation sessions autonomously with a social robot for patients with …

Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly becoming a familiar part of
different aspects of everyday life. We know very little about how children and adults perceive …

This manuscript focuses on the description of a novel cognitive architecture called
NAOTherapist, which provides a social robot with enough autonomy to carry out a non …

With the shortage of rehabilitation clinicians in rural areas and the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, remote rehabilitation (telerehab) fills an important gap in access to rehabilitation …

The impact of robots on employment is discussed extensively, for example, within the
academic literature and the public domain. Disabled people are known to have problems …

Socially assistive robots (SARs) offer great promise for improving outcomes in paediatric
rehabilitation. However, the design of software and interactive capabilities for SARs must be …

Purpose: Socially assistive robots are emerging as a method of supporting the rehabilitation
of children with physical disabilities. To date there has been no in-depth analysis of parent …

Purpose: To examine whether children with or without cerebral palsy (CP) would follow a
humanoid robot's (ie, Darwin) feedback to move their arm faster when playing virtual reality …