TY - JFULL AU - Pascal Gliesche and Kathrin Seibert and Christian Kowalski and Dominik Domhoff and Max Pfingsthorn and Karin Wolf-Ostermann and Andreas Hein PY - 2020/10/ TI - Robotic Assistance in Nursing Care: Survey on Challenges and Scenarios T2 - International Journal of Biomedical and Biological Engineering SP - 256 EP - 262 VL - 14 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10011459 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 165, 2020 N2 - Robotic assistance in nursing care is an increasingly important area of research and development. Facing a shortage of labor and an increasing number of people in need of care, the German Nursing Care Innovation Center (Pflegeinnovationszentrum, PIZ) aims to address these challenges from the side of technology. Little is known about nurses experiences with existing robotic assistance systems. Especially nurses perspectives on starting points for the development of robotic solutions, that target recurring burdensome tasks in everyday nursing care, are of interest. This paper presents findings focusing on robotics resulting from an explanatory mixed-methods study on nurses experiences with and their expectations for innovative technologies in nursing care in stationary and ambulant care facilities and hospitals in Germany. Based on the findings, eight scenarios for robotic assistance are identified based on the real needs of practitioners. An initial system addressing a single use-case is described to show perspectives for the use of robots in nursing care. ER -