Robotic Applications Towards an Interactive Alerting System for Medical Purposes

Social consumer robots are slowly but strongly invading our everyday lives as their prices are becoming lower and lower, constituting them affordable for a wide range of civilians. There has been a lot of research concerning the potential applications of social robots, some of which may implement companionship or proxying technology-related tasks and assisting in everyday household endeavors, among others. In the current work, the RAPP framework is being used towards easily creating robotic applications suitable for utilization as a socially interactive alerting system with the employment of the NAO robot. The developed application stores events in an on-line calendar, directly via the robot or indirectly via a web environment, and asynchronously informs an end-user of imminent events.