Application advantages and development status of emerging nursing robots

3.3 The gap between the current nursing robot and the expectation

Throughout the development process of nursing robots, nursing robots have slowly begun to grow, but their growth process is relatively slow, and the main reasons for its nursing industry are [7] :

(1) The nursing industry has not received high attention and the government has not paid enough attention to it;

(2) The use environment of nursing robots is limited;

(3) The cost of nursing robots is high, and people's consumption level is limited;

(4) The knowledge level of the audience of nursing robots is low;

(5) There are few talents in nursing field;

(6) The industry lacks a perfect nursing robot design method and evaluation mechanism.

In addition, from the perspective of practical application and technology, there are still two problems to be solved:

(1) Safety: The nursing robot lacks a humanized concept in caring for the elderly, and it may not be able to truly meet the spiritual and physiological needs of the elderly, so it may bring some inconvenience to the elderly. Not only that, the system of the service robot needs regular inspection and long-term maintenance, otherwise, the error of the system may endanger the health and life of the elderly.

(2) Economically: the price of care robots is too high, making it difficult to enter ordinary families, and many ordinary families are difficult to bear the high price of service robots. In addition, the concept of the elderly is relatively backward, the ability to accept new things is poor, the service robot is not easy to accept, and it is likely to produce a repellent attitude. [6]

4 Summary

After nearly 40 years of development, nursing robots have gradually entered people's vision, and its development will continue to change the traditional family nursing and old-age care methods. Although the current level of technology is not high enough, we believe that with the innovation and breakthrough of home robot technology, it is becoming a new development industry. In order to make household robots recognized by more people and used more widely, manufacturers and scientific research institutions need to work together.

In view of the current main research hotspots of nursing robots, in order to meet the adaptability and reliability of nursing robots in complex environments, nursing robots will develop in the direction of intelligence and autonomy. In order to reduce the development threshold of nursing robots and accelerate their development, it is necessary to have a unified open source hardware and software platform for nursing robots [8]. We can combine the current social environment and technical level, first grasp the market operation of low-end robots, and then steadily develop the high-end market, so that care robots can have a better development situation.

Based on the comprehensive analysis of the advantages of nursing robots compared with traditional human nurses at home and abroad, this paper points out the application and technology improvement trend of nursing robots. With the increase of the global aging population, the demand for care robots is also increasing, which can be expected to provide a broader market space and development opportunities for its development.