A social robot, the product of AI research, has just arrived from Barcelona to the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science - DISI in Povo, where it will be trained to work in healthcare and assistance. ARI is capable of moving around, moving arms, hands and eyes and can talk, but now it will be programmed by the research group of DISI to interact even better with people thanks to its ability to convey expression and its natural language skills. The goal of the European project SPRING is to establish how much it will be accepted by patients, the elderly and healthcare staff in hospitals and nursing homes