Social Robots in Healthcare

Ethical and Legal

One of the ethical issues being the lack of humanity between their human interactions. Humans are naturally able to read facial expressions and express emotions. Robots, however, do not feel emotions, so they cannot relate to human emotions, raising the issue that they will not be able to approach interactions with humanity, a basic but extremely important task. Another ethical issue involving social robots is the risk of children receiving care from them. Social robots can be unpredictable and potentially uncontrollable, so allowing children to receive their care poses a substantial risk. A legal issue is the concern of privacy, as robots come into close contact with countless individuals and are also used in public. There is a big concern that patient data recorded by social robots could be released to individuals who do not legally have the right to that information (Ragno et al., 2023). According to the 10 rules of netiquette, this idea relates to rule number 8, respecting the privacy of others.

Moblile Application

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