Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly

Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly

“Humans are living longer, healthier lives. That’s great, but there’s a downside — the growing elderly population requires an entire industry of (expensive) caregivers, and we’ll likely need even more of them in the future.

Care robots might be able to do some of that work. Researchers suspect robots could help elderly people with everything from staying active to remembering their medications. Now researchers in Europe and Japan are working to make sure those robots don’t offend the people they’re supposed to take care of — they’re making what they say are the world’s first robots with a sense of cultural norms…”

https://futurism.com/culturally-sensitive-robots/

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