Socially Assistive Robots: The Psychology of Robotic Helpers
November 20 2008 / by Mielle Sullivan / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Technology Year: 2008 Rating: 3
Socially assistive robots — robots that help care for the disabled, elderly or injured — will be a primary part of the coming robotics revolution, argued Maja Mataric founding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the Robo Development Conference in
Santa Clara on Tuesday. But because of subtle psychological factors, they need to be carefully designed.
