**3.1 Detection of physical and psychological violence**

Even though the population above 75 years old has increased during the last years, there have not been enough resources to ensure a proper healthcare system in Mexico [14]. The first significant problem is that there are not enough specialists for treatment, being only one specialized geriatric for every 10,000 elders [15]. Also, it is estimated that 10.3% of older people suffer from one or more types of abuse [16].

The work described in [17] implemented a robotic platform that gave a specialization lecture to medical students about the proper care of elder patients, required during their treatments, as well as helping to detect when they present some level of abuse. This study evaluated how volume modulation, movement correction, and body language affected the effectiveness of the robotic platform when interacting with a group of medics. **Figure 2** shows an example of an informative session.

An evaluation metric was given to the students after the session to compare the performance of the students that interacted with the robot with a different group that received the same training session from a specialized geriatric. After each session, a satisfaction survey was given to every student to evaluate as well their perceptions about the use of the platform.

The results obtained from this study showed no significant difference between the evaluation and perception results obtained from the group that interacted with the robot and the regular group. As strange as it sounds, this is an excellent result since it can be concluded that a robotic platform is equally as good as a professional when explaining specific content to a group of people. It would still be necessary to control some environmental characteristics to make sure the results are as expected. However, it opens the doors for implementing these platforms in specialized training environments.

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**Figure 3.**

*Socially Assistive Robotics: State-of-the-Art Scenarios in Mexico*

**4.1 Use of assistive robotics for physical education classes**

little demonstrations of how they needed to do the exercises.

**4.2 Science and mathematics education in elementary school**

different stretching exercises, as seen in **Figure 3**.

*Physical education class with the support of a robotic platform.*

PE class was to make more dynamic.

According to the Mexican Institute of Public Health, there has been an increment of children that suffer from obesity. From 34.8% of the population between 5 and 11 years that presented that problem, the rate of children increased to 35.6% in 2018 [18]. There has been an urgency to promote physical education (PE) in elementary schools to reduce these statistics. Nevertheless, children are not interested in those classes since the methodology is tedious and does not attract their

A research group used a NAO robot as a supportive tool for the teacher to increase the enthusiasm of children during physical education class [19]. The idea was to use the platform to give the instructions to the students, as well as making

The experimental methodology followed the standard model of a PE class, starting with basic warm-up exercises, such as rotating arms and legs, and continuing with more intense activities, like running around an area or doing squats. Finally, the class would end after a relaxation period, where both the robot and students performed

The results of this experiment showed that the robotic platform was capable of improving the attention span of the students during class while assuring that the children performed better every one of the exercises. However, it was also shown that the intervention of the instructor was needed on certain occasions since the students did not saw the platform as an authority figure. Despite the students considering the robot as a toy, the results were positive, considering that the purpose of

A critical feature that elementary school needs to develop on their students is the ability to use mathematical and logical thinking in daily life situations. For this

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91446*

attention.

**4. Socially assistive robotics in education**

**Figure 2.** *Use of a robotic platform for medical students training.*
