Main description:

Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care provides healthcare professionals with a deeper understanding of the incredible opportunities brought by the emerging field of AI robotics. In addition, it provides robotic researchers with the point-of-view of healthcare professionals to understand what the healthcare sector - as well as the market - really needs from robotics technology. By doing so, the book fills an important gap between both fields in order to leverage new developments and collaborative work in favor of global patients.

The book is aimed at the non-technical reader, especially health and social care professionals, and explains in a simple way the technological principles applied in the development of socially assistive humanoid AI robots (SAHR), the values which guide such developments, the ethics related to them, and research approaches in the field, with a focus on achieving a culturally competent SAHR.

Contents:

1. The 4th industrial revolution and the introduction of culturally competent concepts and values for AI technologies in healthcare
2. A beginner's guide to how robots work
3. What the literature says about AI and robotic technologies in health and social care
4. The ethics of socially assistive robots in health and social care
5. A workplan to develop culturally competent robots: the CARESSES case study
6. Developing scenarios for a health and social care robotics project
7. From scenarios to guidelines for the programming of culturally competent, socially assistive AI robots
8. From guidelines to culturally competent artificial intelligence
9. Development of a fully autonomous culturally competent robot companion
10. The trial and results
11. The role of AI culturally competent robots in major health disasters
12. Future gazing