arXiv:2510.01192v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component for achieving satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the article uses humanities methods to identify a gap in defining empathetic robot care activities. It provides a design focus to mitigate it. Current human-robot designs, to a certain extent, neglect to include empathy as a th
