Nina Kobilica
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About
Nina Kobilica is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of healthcare, robotics, and artificial intelligence, focusing on how socially assistive humanoid robots and digital decision-support systems can transform nursing and patient care. Her work addresses critical challenges in modern healthcare—aging populations, workforce shortages, and rising care demands—by exploring the expectations, attitudes, and ethical acceptability of integrating these technologies into clinical routines. Her most-cited study (2023, 16 citations) uses structural equation modeling to map how patients and healthcare professionals perceive humanoid robots in nursing, revealing key psychological and systemic barriers to adoption. She has also designed and published protocols for randomized controlled trials evaluating the impact of combining clinical decision support systems with socially assistive robots during pre- and post-operative grand rounds (2022, 7 citations), as well as studies on interactive digital assistance’s effects on patient engagement and staff workload. With a growing citation footprint and a clear focus on implementation science, Kobilica is shaping how we ethically and effectively deploy robotic assistance in high-stress healthcare environments—making her work essential reading for anyone interested in the future of human-robot interaction in medicine.
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