Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation
Christian Sternitzke, Sebastian Blumenthal, Lukas Kleedoerfer, Verena Deserno, Anke Mayfarth · N/A · 2026
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Many publications on robotic systems in healthcare describe early-stage work on low technology readiness levels.
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Key Points
- Many publications on robotic systems in healthcare describe early-stage work on low technology readiness levels.
- This paper describes how a mobile service robot approved as a medical device reaches higher technology readiness levels by adding peripheral functions and smaller improvements, which are pivotal for user acceptance in clinical environments and which often cannot be elicited by questioning users ex-ante as certain aspects only come in mind from testing the systems in clinical settings or operational environments.
- Especially developers of service robots in healthcare are advised to plan with such downstream developments, which can take significant implementation time, to obtain user acceptance and achieve widespread adoption of their robotic systems.
Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation
|Authors: Christian Sternitzke, Sebastian Blumenthal, Lukas Kleedoerfer, Verena Deserno, Anke Mayfarth
|Venue: arXiv preprint | Year: 2026
|arXiv: 2609.16996v1
Abstract
Many publications on robotic systems in healthcare describe early-stage work on low technology readiness levels. This paper describes how a mobile service robot approved as a medical device reaches higher technology readiness levels by adding peripheral functions and smaller improvements, which are pivotal for user acceptance in clinical environments and which often cannot be elicited by questioning users ex-ante as certain aspects only come in mind from testing the systems in clinical settings or operational environments. Especially developers of service robots in healthcare are advised to plan with such downstream developments, which can take significant implementation time, to obtain user acceptance and achieve widespread adoption of their robotic systems.
Key Contributions
- Many publications on robotic systems in healthcare describe early-stage work on low technology re…
- This paper describes how a mobile service robot approved as a medical device reaches higher techn…
- Especially developers of service robots in healthcare are advised to plan with such downstream de…
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- reinforcement-learning
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@article{Sternitzke2026_260916996v1,
title = {Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation},
author = {Christian Sternitzke and Sebastian Blumenthal and Lukas Kleedoerfer and Verena Deserno and Anke Mayfarth},
year = {2026},
eprint = {2609.16996v1},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.RO},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16996v1}
}
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