Companion Humanoids · Part of The Humanoid Group
About Companion Humanoids
Companion Humanoids looks at robots for company, children, care and remote presence, with close attention to privacy and wellbeing. It comes from the editorial team at The Humanoid Group.
Sources we rely on
- ISO/TR 23482-2:2019 Application of ISO 13482: application guidelines — International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Guidance for designers on applying ISO 13482 where care robots work in close contact with people. - Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety — European Union (EUR-Lex).
EU safety law for consumer products; safety assessments now take in connected features, cybersecurity and learning functions. - Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 — European Union (EUR-Lex).
Applies the privacy and network-security requirements of EU radio equipment law to connected devices, including toys. - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) — European Union (EUR-Lex).
The EU data protection law that applies when schools, employers or care providers stream or record people on camera. - WHO Commission on Social Connection — World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO commission's work on loneliness and social isolation, with evidence on their health effects and on what helps. - Ageism in artificial intelligence for health — World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO policy brief on how AI products can build in ageism, and legal and technical steps to prevent it. - Emotion recognition and human-robot interaction: a systematic review of methods and applications — Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
Review of 60 studies on robots that read emotions, finding few were tested in real time on robot hardware.