Designing, Implementation and Use of Robotic Devices in the Social Sectors in Foreign Studies

The article presents the analysis of foreign scientific studies on the use of robotic devices in social spheres such as entertainment, education and health care, for therapeutic purposes for children with autism spectrum disorder, for patients with sensorimotor disorders during rehabilitation, and robots for pets. Also, social robots can promote cooperation in the workplace, as well as help to educate and deepen understanding of students in the field of natural science subjects. The experience of applying social robots in education is exemplified. The article focuses on the problems of using robotic systems in the educational process, such as: the discrepancy between the abilities of the robot and the users' expectations, insufficient degree of adaptation required to use the robot in educational process taking into account the physical and social context, the problem of user privacy, users' fears during interaction with the robot and many other social aspects of human-machine interaction.