The role of intelligent telepresence robots for continuously caring elderly people at home

With the COVID-19, telepresence robots have re-gained a particular attention as tool to keep in contact with people remotely. Over the years, a lot of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of telepresence robots for communication with respect to other typologies of devices. However, most of the works have focused on the short-term interaction between the robot and the users. Herein, we put the effort to design telepresence robots for continuously caring elderly people in the domestic scenario. With this purpose, in this work, we integrate different AI-driven services, developed inside the SI-Robotics project, to enhance the capabilities of a commercial robotic platform and to provide ecological interaction over time.