Robots in healthcare: A solution or a problem?Other healthcare related areas of implementation of robot technologies

Professor, Ph.D. Daniel DavidBabeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (professor)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA (adjunct professor) Albert Ellis Institute, New York, USA (director for research/supervisor)

European Parliament's Committee for Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) Brussels, 19 February 2019

Fundamentals

• Optimization vs. Health vs. Disorders• Psychological interventions: Assessment/Testing-Conceptualization-Intervention-

Relationship• Evidence-based/research-supported psychological interventions

• Personalized evidence-based psychological interventions

Technology in ASD

The PsyPills app

Food for Thoughts• Human replacement

• Humans take new roles

• Autonomy• Supervised autonomy

• Safety• Classical+• Cyber-security

• Ethics• Fashion vs. Efficacy/effectiveness + Cost-effectiveness