The present study examines the implementation of social robots in real settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we analyze the areas in which social robots are being adopted, the roles and tasks being fulfilled, and the robot models being implemented. For that, we traced back and analyzed 195 experiences with 66 different social robots worldwide that have been adopted during the coronavirus outbreak. We identified a clear resurgence and expansion of social robots during the crisis. The social robots' capacity to perform the roles of liaison in tasks that require human-human interaction, to act as a safeguard to ensure contagion risk-free environments, and to act as well-being coaches by providing therapeutic and entertaining functions for quarantined patients, which are directly associated with the needs of facilitating physical distance and palliate the effects of isolation, have been key to the renaissance of these robots during the pandemic.
翻译:本研究报告审查了在COVID-19大流行期间社会机器人在现实环境中的运用情况,我们特别分析了社会机器人被采纳的领域、正在履行的作用和任务,以及正在实施的机器人模型,为此,我们追溯并分析了在冠状病毒爆发期间在全世界采用的66个不同的社会机器人的195个经验,我们查明了危机期间社会机器人的明显复苏和扩大,社会机器人在需要人与人之间互动的任务中履行联络作用的能力,作为确保无传染风险环境的保障,并通过向被检疫病人提供治疗和娱乐功能来作为健康导师,这些功能与便利身体距离和缓解隔离影响的需求直接相关,是这些机器人在大流行病期间复兴的关键。