Robots that socially interact with people who have mental, social and cognitive handicaps (e.g. autistic and dementia) . Improving social participation in handicapped patients such as these has proved to be difficult in health care. The robots purpose is to help in the developing of basic social skills through play or mainting skills to help with everyday life.These robotic systems can be programmed to generate all kinds of communicative reactions (e.g. sounds and colours), invite to move or play games, stimulate friendly face expressions and can also learn to adapt to the individual person.
