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Episode 66: Healthcare robots you can trust - Jims Marchang

Robot Talk · 15 Dec 2023 · 29m · Episode 66

What this episode covers

Jims Marchang, a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, discusses the critical need for security, privacy, and trust in healthcare and assistive robots. He explains his research into gait-based biometric authentication as a way to reduce human error in continuous user verification, noting that 95% of cybersecurity incidents are due to human error. Marchang highlights that 70% of study participants stated robots cannot be trusted without robust security measures, emphasizing that privacy-by-design is essential for adoption.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Sheffield Hallam University, CSCAN Research Laboratory, University of Plymouth, Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, NHS, IBM
Products
Alexa, NHS Track and Trace App

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