".the book offers detailed knowledge on major issues to benefit both health and social care workers and those who are simply interested in the subject, and it does so in a clear and rational way. The message of Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care is driven by hope and a resolve that AI and SARs in health and social care might make our lives better. As such, I have no hesitation in recommending this book, which is insightful, clear, and useful. Hence, I give potential readers a very high recommendation as the book is accessible and clarifying, and it will be useful to researchers and students alike, both in college and graduate classrooms. The book's pragmatic approach makes a valuable contribution to several fields-anthropology, sociology, nursing, and robotics-and also provides useful insights for policy makers working in health-related fields." --Anne Aronsson, Department of Anthropology, Yale, CT, USA
1. The 4th industrial revolution and the introduction of culturally competent concepts and values for AI technologies in healthcare2. A beginner's guide to how robots work3. What the literature says about AI and robotic technologies in health and social care4. The ethics of socially assistive robots in health and social care5. A workplan to develop culturally competent robots: the CARESSES case study6. Developing scenarios for a health and social care robotics project7. From scenarios to guidelines for the programming of culturally competent, socially assistive AI robots8. From guidelines to culturally competent artificial intelligence9. Development of a fully autonomous culturally competent robot companion10. The trial and results11. The role of AI culturally competent robots in major health disasters12. Future gazing