Social robots have been introduced in different fields such as retail, health care and education. Primary education in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) recently faced new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines including students falling behind and teachers burdened with …

While many health-care issues and technological solutions are viewed locally, developing new technological solutions might benefit from lessons learned globally. The aim of this study was to develop a shared international research agenda of health-care ICT, applied to rehabilitation and daily living …

Voor het eerst in vijftig jaar zijn er op de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt meer vacatures dan werklozen [1]. Omdat de druk voor ondernemers hierdoor sterk toeneemt is het relevant om te kijken of robots een oplossing kunnen bieden. Uit ons eerdere blogartikel [2] kwam naar voren dat klanten robots vooral …

Robotisering maakt processen mogelijk, die eerder economisch niet haalbaar waren. Innovatie en techniek versnellen de transitie naar de toekomst: een nieuwe economie, die uitdagingen én kansen biedt. Techniek - onder andere robotisering en AI (kunstmatige intelligentie) – speelt hierin een sleutelrol, …

The current study investigated how individual differences among children affect the added value of social robots for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary to young children. Specifically, we investigated the moderating role of three individual child characteristics deemed relevant for language learning: …

Autonomous robots require high degrees of cognitive and motoric intelligence to come into our everyday life. In non-structured environments and in the presence of uncertainties, such degrees of intelligence are not easy to obtain. Reinforcement learning algorithms have proven to be capable of solving …

Josper Bouwer is eigenaar van Bouwtechnics C & C B.V. Josper is van mening dat er te weinig aandacht is voor robotisering in het onderwijs. Uit de enquête die onder studenten is gehouden in het onderzoek blijkt dat studenten weinig kennis hebben van robotica en meer zouden willen leren op het gebied …

Presentation for the 2021 International Communication Association Conference. Together with Tilburg University and Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, we investigated if and how telepresence robots affect between-student cooperation. Telepresence robots are robots that absent students can communicate …

Young pediatric patients who undergo venipuncture or capillary blood sampling often experience high levels of pain and anxiety. This often results in distressed young patients and their parents, increased treatment times, and a higher workload for healthcare professionals. Social robots are a new and …