Authors: Souren Pashangpour, Goldie Nejat
Abstract: The potential use of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare robotics can
help address the significant demand put on healthcare systems around the world
with respect to an aging demographic and a shortage of healthcare
professionals. Even though LLMs have already been integrated into medicine to
assist both clinicians and patients, the integration of LLMs within healthcare
robots has not yet been explored for clinical settings. In this perspective
paper, we investigate the groundbreaking developments in robotics and LLMs to
uniquely identify the needed system requirements for designing health specific
LLM based robots in terms of multi modal communication through human robot
interactions (HRIs), semantic reasoning, and task planning. Furthermore, we
discuss the ethical issues, open challenges, and potential future research
directions for this emerging innovative field.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03287v1
