This book describes a unique approach to bring robotic technology into elders’ daily lives. Low cost components and low cost robotic assistants are effectively combined to offer high quality services to elders and people in need. The book presents in a comprehensive way how technology can be used for developing a new healthcare paradigm where high quality services are offered at home, thus reducing the ever-increasing hospitalization cost of the elders and the people with chronic diseases.

Introduction to the RADIO Project.- Part 1. Early Detection of Emerging Functional Impairments.- A Survey of Robot Perception for Clinical Assessment.- Obtrusiveness Considerations of AAL Environments.- Realistic and Unobtrusive Solutions for Independent Ageing.- Part 2. The RADIO System.- Integrating Robots and WSN: Communications and Interfacing Considerations.- ROS as Integration Medium for Service Robotics.- Accelerating AAL Home Services using Embedded Hardware Components.- Designing User Interfaces for Elderly.- The Ecosystem of Connected RADIO Systems.- Part 3. The Road to Commercialization.- Roadmap to Expanding Alternatives to Hospitalization.- Robots in Home Automation and Assistive Environments.