Computation and communication challenges to deploy robots in assisted living environments

Demographic and epidemiologic transitions have brought forward a new health care paradigm with the presence of both growing elderly population and chronic diseases. Recent technological advances can support elderly people in their domestic environment assuming that several ethical and clinical requirements can be met. This paper presents an architecture that is able to meet these requirements and investigates the technical challenges introduced by our approach.

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