With all the problems long-term care is grappling with and focusing on, sometimes it is harder to see even bigger problems down the road. Right now, senior care facilities are grappling with ...
The Financial Times recently wrote a four-part series on “Robots: Friend or Foe?” The editors agree that the Robolution is now a matter of time, as we stand on the precipice of an automated world.
The first thing Pepper told me was that he was running out of battery. “He’s got about 15 minutes before he dies,” Emanuel ...
Creative Technology, Hanyang, Labrador, SoftBank and Roborock were among the robot makers of note. A flying air purifier, an autonomous snowplow and a delivery robot for senior living facilities ...
Western Dakota Technical College’s medical simulation wing uses “robot patients” to teach students how to care for real ...
The elder-care staffing crisis plaguing the U.S. could be mitigated by emerging solutions from AgeTech companies as they turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their products, especially ...
Many elderly people living in care homes are often at increased risk from the coronavirus and the "shielding" measures designed to help keep them safe mean being separated from their loved ones.
In a preview of the future, two robots loaded a cardboard box at a pharmacy and started traveling along a sidewalk in Tokyo at a speed of 3 to 4 kph. The automatons were bound for a nursing home ...
We've become used to giving ourselves away. We give away our data. We even give away what we think, feel and do. Somehow, we say we care about privacy but don't often do anything to protect it.
Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have developed the first stretchy, electronic skin with many of the same characteristics as human skin. Here's what we know. The researchers have ...
The pretend pooches and fake felines are being used at Belvedere Manor Care Home in Colne, Lancashire. Staff said they had seen tangible results in terms of residents' wellbeing, especially for ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A book series dedicated to the harmonisation and unification of family and succession law in Europe. The series includes comparative legal ...