PARO the baby seal can recognise faces and voices. \NUIG/Sligo IT
Social robots will complement the work of carers and solve a skills shortage at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to get people into care jobs,” say Drs Perry Share and John Pender, joint coordinators of a project called PRoSPEro (the Pedagogy of Robotics in the Social Professions in Europe), who spoke at an online workshop organised by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
This project is currently developing training programmes for care professionals in the use of social robots, bringing practitioners and policy makers together and sharing international knowledge about the current state and future use of robots.