Investigating the First Robotic Nurses: Humanoid Robot Nightingale and Partners for COVID-19 Preventive Design

Esyin Chew*, Pei Lee Lee, Jiaji Yang, Shuyang Hu

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Abstract

Responding to these global COVID-19 changes for daily healthcare services clinic, while maintaining safe social distancing, the paper reports the human-centred iterative design with real-fields feasibility inquiries to investigate the first robotic nurse and her partners in Wales. The research adapted the ancient Eastern human nature of seven emotions and six biological wills for the selection criteria and novel design principles for the care robots. We report the preliminary work for integrating, customising, implementing and evaluating three novel robotic nurses: Robot Nightingale, Robot Almeida and Robot Eureka in a care home and a hospital. Bionic Scenarios Definition with 5 merging principles are extracted from the Feasibility Inquiries 1–3. Limitations are discussed from the stakeholders’ experiences. Our research has no intension to replace human nurses, but a thoughtful feasibility and interdisciplinary study for bionic robotic nurses for conventional engineers’ and practitioners’ references.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Trends in Medical and Service Robotics, MESROB 2021
EditorsGeorg Rauter, Giuseppe Carbone, Philippe C. Cattin, Azhar Zam, Doina Pisla, Robert Riener, Robert Riener
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages139-146
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030761462
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jul 2022
Event7th International Workshop on New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics, MESROB 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7 Jun 20219 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameMechanisms and Machine Science
Volume106 MMS
ISSN (Print)2211-0984
ISSN (Electronic)2211-0992

Conference

Conference7th International Workshop on New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics, MESROB 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/06/219/06/21

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