XIE Mingwei, ZHANG Tong, GUO Fengying, WU Jiarui.
Objective To analyze the research status, hotspots and trends of research on elderly care robots at home and abroad. Methods Literatures related to elderly care robots were retrieved from Web of Science and CNKI, and CiteSpace6. 2. R4 was used to perform literature metrology and visualized analysis on the included literature. Results A total of 443 Chinese literatures and 1, 656 English literatures were retrieved and included. The annual publication volume of Chinese and English literatures showed a significant upward trend, while the number of Chinese literatures was small, and the growth rate of publication volume was low. The level of cooperation between institutions is relatively low, and the main issuing institutions are universities. The English keywords include technology, dementia, design, etc., and the Chinese keywords include artificial intelligence, smart elderly care, human-robot interaction, etc., 9 main cluster labels were obtained by clustering Chinese and English keywords, the English clustering labels were human computer interaction, leg movement, fall detection, etc., and the Chinese clustering labels were exoskeleton, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, etc., 15 and 20 keywords were obtained for Burst terms of Chinese and English, respectively, with the highest intensity of Burst term being dynamics and artificial intelligence. Conclusion In the future, research in the field of elderly care robots should strengthen the deep integration of industry, academia and research, improve the effectiveness of talent training, enhance the transformation level of scientific and technological achievements. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen data security and privacy protection, and focus on the application of multimodal design and cutting-edge AI technologies.