Growing Older Together: When a Robot Becomes the Best Ally for Ageing Well

摘要

While recent technological developments increasingly bring robots into people's life, improving individuals' productivity at work or easing their life at home, many elderly adults have not benefited of that societal change yet, therefore remaining excluded from the information society. Against this phenomenon, several innovative products have been recently proposed in assistive technology: among them, multipurpose robotic systems certainly represent the most appealing solution designed to improve elderly people quality of life. However, for robots to truly become part of the life of elderly people, essential usability, acceptance and ethical issues need to be addressed and solved by robotics researchers.