Robotic exoskeletons are…alive!
It seems like ages–in reality, only two years or so [TTA 19 Dec 15]–that this Editor was writing hopefully about advances in exoskeletons such as ReWalk and Wyss, EKSO plus DARPA research in assisting...
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Robot roundup: doctor cars, teleworkers, robogiggers, errant NAO robots
click to enlargeThis month your Editor’s been ‘overrun by robots’ in the news! Here’s the roundup for your end of August reading, with an emphasis on how humans interact with robot helpers, especially...
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Japan as aging bellwether: experiential VR, claim that robots increase...
Japan’s population is the oldest on average in the world, with over 27 percent of its population aged over 65 and the highest average life expectancy at 83.7 years. Writer Shiho Fukada spent a year...
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PARO: The robotic therapy seal that benefits so few
click to enlargeI have a problem with that cute, robotic seal cub PARO. More accurately, I have a problem with the ethics of the business model of the Japanese company that makes it, Intelligent System...
View ArticlePepper pays a first-ever robot visit to Commons on the future of AI and...
[grow_thumb image=”http://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/103886629_mediaitem103886628.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Pepper paid a visit to a House of Commons select committee on education and...
View ArticleA critical take on Pepper’s Parliament Question Time (UK)
[grow_thumb image=”http://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/103886629_mediaitem103886628.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Perhaps this Editor should have been less credulous. Somewhere, this Editor...
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Kompaï robotics gets FABULOS in EU Horizon 2020 automated minibus competition
France’s Kompaï robotics, which Editor Steve first profiled in May 2011 (!), is still developing assistive robots for older adults, the disabled, and their caregivers. In another instance of...
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Robots’ largely positive, somewhat equivocal role in therapy for children...
A Georgia Tech study presented at this week’s HIMSS19 conference presented findings of an eight-week study of children with specific neurological conditions who were assisted by robotics in specific...
View ArticleTechnology will help ease, but not replace, rising workforce demand in...
A just-published research paper by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care, has come to the not entirely unsurprising conclusion...
View ArticleBehave, Robot! DARPA researchers teaching them some manners.
[grow_thumb image=”http://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Overrun-by-Robots1-183×108.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Weekend Reading While AI is hotly debated and the Drudge Report features daily...
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