This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I like their mentality of trying new tech and seeing what is effective. It seems like there are many opportunities for robots to bring improvement to a care home but without an open mind and trail and error it will never be found.
Personally I think Sensors in beds and robots that helps assist daily tasks is the most useful as long as it's built simple and cheap to run.
I don't want to see care homes paying 10 grand for a bed that has a $2 liquid sensor in the bedpan.
I really don't understand how every fictional robot, no matter how minor or simple, is usually 100x better than the real ones, with ugly shapes and uncanny valleys all around.
Fictional ones dosen't need to actually work.
Fictional ones don't have to be cheap to manufacture in the real world. The weirdest things can add to costs when you have to take into account the constraints of injection molding and press-fit assemblies (and that's just for the outer shell).
Japan had been trying to pull off this trick for years. There's an easier solution. It's called immigration, but Japan has been ruled by conservatives who refuse to see a difference between nationality and ethnicity. There are a lot of nurses from developing countries that would be a lot more effective than a can of Pepper.
