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The Role of Social Robotics to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic

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Book cover Digital Transformation and Emerging Technologies for Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic: Innovative Approaches

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As the COVID-19 pandemic grows, the shortening of clinical hardware is expanding. A key bit of hardware getting out of sight has been ventilators. The contrast among the organic market is significant to be dealt with ordinary creation strategies, particularly under social removing measures set up. The examination investigates the method of reasoning of human-robot groups to increase creation utilizing preferences of both the simplicity of coordination and keeping up social removing. This chapter highlights the role of social robotic in fighting COVID-19. Also, it presents the requirements of social robotics.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering Department, Higher Technological Institute, Cairo, Egypt

    Lamia Nabil Mahdy & Kadry Ali Ezzat

  2. Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

    Ashraf Darwish

  3. Faculty of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  4. Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Cairo, Egypt

    Lamia Nabil Mahdy, Kadry Ali Ezzat & Ashraf Darwish

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Mahdy, L.N., Ezzat, K.A., Darwish, A., Hassanien, A.E. (2021). The Role of Social Robotics to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Hassanien, A.E., Darwish, A. (eds) Digital Transformation and Emerging Technologies for Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic: Innovative Approaches. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63307-3_13

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