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Aug 2026
Exploring Emotional Attachment to Socially Assistive Robots: A Qualitative Study Among Older Adults
Socially assistive robots (SARs) show potential to alleviate loneliness among older adults but raise ethical risks regarding emotional attachment. While existing studies largely focus on normative frameworks, empirical insights into older adults' subjective experiences in specific cultural settings remain limited. Grou...
Ji-Xia Cao, Can Yang, Xingru Yang et al.
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