Healthcare Robotic Telepresence

The healthcare system is a decided target for new technologies because the results are affecting directly human life and quality of life. Robotic telepresence is a robotics domain with an expanding interest and part of it is dedicated to the support of hospital patients and of elders. Because of the continuous functioning, they are fit to persons which require permanent assistance, increasing their care and their quality of life and to persons which are isolated because of communicable infectious diseases, increasing their healthcare in conditions of safety for the others. The concentration on the study of robotic telepresence for healthcare was vastly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and solutions using this approach were proposed all around the world. We will review in this paper the existing research and results for healthcare robotic telepresence and we will insist on the functionalities, characteristics and interfaces of these devices, with the intention to start developing similar solutions.