Main description:

Proposes to employ robots to improve the treatment of patients and leverage the load of the medical system.
Demonstrates the concept of various robotics in healthcare telepresence, rehabilitation, therapy, and delivery robots to provide social distancing.
Explores social robot aesthetics and how social interaction and embodied experience could be useful during social isolation.
Includes anecdotes from applications used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contents:

About the Editor. List of Contributors. Chapter 1 Robotics Applications for Public Health and Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chapter 2 Beauty in Interaction: A Framework for Social Robot Aesthetics (Pandemic Edition). Chapter 3 Cyber-Physical System for Automated Service of Restaurant Visitors in Conditions of Mandatory Wearing of Masks. Chapter 4 Low-Cost Delivery and Telepresence Robot for the COVID-19 Crisis. Chapter 5 Concept of an Autonomous Robot for Medical Services, Rehabilitation and Music Therapy for Pandemics. Chapter 6 Home-Automated Robot Massaging for Pandemics. INDEX.