A.I. Nurses for elder care?

[Debi]

AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes

Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and elderly, according to a professor who helped invent it. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, a robot expert from the University of...

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Good way to simply scare us to death.

 

[garnetsilver]

Now I am all kinds of creeped out! It would be like interacting with a large doll that came to life; you're right, Debi. It would scare people to death definitely!

 

[Lynne]

What a terrible idea. Some of the elderly only get human contact with their health care professionals.