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Record W4409266303 · doi:10.3233/shti250057

The Pepper Robot in Healthcare: A Scoping Review

2025· review· en· W4409266303 on OpenAlexaff
André Kushniruk, Elizabeth M. Borycki

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in health technology and informatics · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAI in Service Interactions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanoid robotHealth careRobotDementiaEconomic shortageComputer sciencePepperHuman–computer interactionArtificial intelligenceMedicineComputer securityPolitical scienceDisease

Abstract

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Humanoid robots are increasingly being used in a number of domains. This paper focuses on reviewing the use of the Pepper humanoid robot in healthcare. This robot has begun to be used in a range of settings and combines speech recognition with artificial intelligence to create meaningful interactions with users. In this paper we describe a scoping review conducted to assess the type and range of applications Pepper has been used for. The focus of the review was to determine what the uses of Pepper have been, how it has impacted healthcare and what the challenges and limitations are of using Pepper in healthcare. The results of the review indicate that Pepper has successfully been applied to an increasing range of areas which include its use in dementia care, neurodevelopmental disorders, chronic illness education, caregiver shortages as well as for cognitive stimulation therapy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.650
Threshold uncertainty score0.828

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.110
GPT teacher head0.490
Teacher spread0.380 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2025
Admission routes1
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