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Towards a Sociology of Healthcare Robots We propose a sociological approach to healthcare robots that emphasises the heterogeneous ethics of mutual labour and the complex definitions of care that emerge through robot design/deployment. This...

There has been a growing application of robotics in healthcare settings. We compiled a review of the literature to identify a potential agenda for sociologists interested in the area:
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Välkky’s voyage on to a hospital ward: Expectations, explorations and emergent robocentric nursing care - Sarah Nettleton, Nik Brown, Karl Atkin, Luna Dolezal, Sanna Metsäketo, Daniel Robins, 2024 Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Finland, we report on the trial of a teleoperated care robot named Välkky introduced onto a fully operational hospital neur...

Delighted to say that our paper about the trial of a teleoperated robot on a Finnish hospital ward is open access in Health. The robot was named by the nurses as Välkky, and we found that its deployment provided a reimagining of how we approach what care is:
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