Robots rise to meet the challenge of caring for old people

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels. Article by Neil Savage. Nature – January 19, 2022.

Robotics technology is improving, but its routine use in the home, hospital and care settings could be a long way off.

As a teenager in the early 2000s, Conor McGinn worked part-time in the nursing home where his grandmother lived. The employees did all they could to make her and other residents comfortable, but McGinn says her quality of life was never as good as it was before. “The staff […]

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