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Robot caregivers: How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?
Open Roboethics Initiative
28 Jan 2015
With the continuous increase in life expectancy and the number of people aged 65+ on the rise, it is no wonder that many roboticists have been discussing the use of robot as companion/caregiver for e...
Driven by care needs, will it be the booming senior population that spurs wider acceptance of robots?
Abate De Mey
19 Oct 2014
Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Center of Robotics believes that [tweetquote]the medical industry could be at the forefront of changing the public per...
Service robots boost Danish welfare
Wolfgang Heller
03 Nov 2012
In 2006, Denmark created a fund of three billion Danish kronor ($519-million) to study how technologies like service robots can be used to replace manual labour in various public services.
Social r...
CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2012
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, appliances, entertainment, health, mobility, etc. More than 20,000 new products w...
CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2012
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, appliances, entertainment, health, mobility, etc. More than 20,000 new products w...
Is 2012 the year that robot applications take root?
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2012
Tell us what apps you want.
In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. Over 1.2 billion apps were downloaded between Chris...
