Challenges of Integrating Assistive Technologies and Robots with Embodied Intelligence in the Homes of Older People Living with Frailty

** Article version: VoR ** From MDPI via Jisc Publications Router ** History: received 19-04-2025; rev-recd 20-07-2025; accepted 23-07-2025; epub 29-07-2025; collection 01-08-2025. ** Licence for VoR version of this article: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ** Peer reviewed: TRUE ** Acknowledgements: For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript versions of this paper arising from this submission. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Waqas Hameed from Darnell Well Being for his valuable contributions in curating resources, reviewing our paper, and facilitating the co-design workshop activities. We also extend our thanks to Joe McLoughlin, former director at Astraline, along with his team, Andrew Conroy and Jack Battersby, whose insights helped ensure our activities were well-suited for older participants. Their support in connecting us with participants through their schemes, their active involvement in the co-design workshop, feedback on our submission, and assistance during the funding acquisition phase were greatly appreciated. We are grateful to Elvira Perez from the University of Nottingham for their support in reviewing our project grant submission and facilitating RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) workshops. We would also like to thank Praminda Caleb-Solly and Simon Castle-Green from the University of Nottingham for their practical support in facilitating these experimental sessions at the Cobot Maker Space. Finally, we acknowledge the contributions of Alessandro Di Nuovo and Chris Bates from Sheffield Hallam University, who facilitated the co-design workshop and organised the internal review rounds to help strengthen the quality of the paper.