Pratyusha Ghosh

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Pratyusha Ghosh is a visionary researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction and healthcare, dedicated to designing robots that serve with empathy and precision in the world’s most demanding clinical environments. Her work centers on three critical areas: supporting emergency department (ED) healthcare workers, addressing the needs of people with episodic disabilities, and reimagining acute cancer care. In her highly cited paper *“Robot, Uninterrupted”* (2023, 16 citations), Ghosh reveals that ED workers face interruptions every six minutes, and argues that robots must be designed to mitigate—not exacerbate—these disruptions. Her groundbreaking research on Long Covid, including *“Envisioning Telepresence Robots for Long Covid”* (2025, 5 citations), applies a critical disability lens to propose mobile telemanipulator robots (MTRs) as tools to combat the social isolation caused by episodic disability. In *“Designing Care-fully: Robots for Acute Cancer Care”* (2026, 2 citations), she challenges the field to address systemic ED understaffing without using robots as a bandage. Ghosh’s work is distinguished by its ethical rigor, patient-centered design, and refusal to treat technology as a fix for broken systems—making her a leading voice in socially responsible robotics.