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dc.contributor.authorVan Aerschot, Lina
dc.contributor.authorParviainen, Jaana
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-09T04:07:29Z
dc.date.available2020-06-09T04:07:29Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationVan Aerschot, L., & Parviainen, J. (2020). Robots responding to care needs? : A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance. <i>Ethics and Information Technology</i>, <i>22</i>(3), 247-256. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09536-0" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09536-0</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_35889788
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/69785
dc.description.abstractTwenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expectations of robots revolutionizing care of older people, the role of robots in human care has remained marginal. The value of world trade in service robots, including care robots, is rather small. We argue that the implementation of robots in care is not primarily due to negative user attitudes or ethical problems, but to problems in R&D and manufacturing. The care robots currently available on the market are capable of simple, repetitive tasks or colloquial interaction. Thus far, also research on care robots is mostly conducted using imagi-nary scenarios or small-scale tests built up for research purposes. To develop useful and affordable robot solutions that are ethically, socially and ecologically sustainable, we suggest that robot initiatives should be evaluated within the framework of care ecosystems. This implies that attention has to be paid to the social, emotional and practical contexts in which care is given and received. Also, the political, economic and ecological realities of organizing care and producing technological commodities have to be acknowledged. It is time to openly discuss the drivers behind care robot initiatives to outline the bigger picture of organizing care under conditions of limited resources.en
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dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEthics and Information Technology
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.othercare robots
dc.subject.othercare ethics
dc.subject.otherrobot design
dc.subject.othereffective
dc.subject.otheraffective
dc.subject.othercare ecosystem
dc.titleRobots responding to care needs? : A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202006094042
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineIkääntymisen ja hoivan tutkimuksen huippuyksikköfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineYhteiskuntapolitiikkafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineHyvinvoinnin tutkimuksen yhteisöfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineCentre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Careen
dc.contributor.oppiaineSocial and Public Policyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineSchool of Wellbeingen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange247-256
dc.relation.issn1388-1957
dc.relation.numberinseries3
dc.relation.volume22
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© The Authors 2020
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.relation.grantnumber312303
dc.subject.ysohoivapalvelut
dc.subject.ysorobotit
dc.subject.ysohoivatyö
dc.subject.ysohyvinvointiteknologia
dc.subject.ysoeettisyys
dc.subject.ysorobotiikka
dc.format.contentfulltext
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7666
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2619
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7422
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p12902
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p23085
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2615
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.1007/s10676-020-09536-0
dc.relation.funderResearch Council of Finlanden
dc.relation.funderSuomen Akatemiafi
jyx.fundingprogramCentre of Excellence, AoFen
jyx.fundingprogramHuippuyksikkörahoitus, SAfi
jyx.fundinginformationOpen access funding provided by University of Jyväskylä (JYU). This study was funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland (Grant Number 292980) and the Academy of Finland grant to the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (Grant Number 312303).
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