The global population of people older than 65 years of age is rapidly increasing the need for care. Although care robots are a promising solution to fill in for caregivers, their social implementation ...

Researchers at Universiteit Leiden are pleased to announce a study delving into crucial aspects of safety and responsibility in the domain of personal care robots, explicitly focusing on robotic lower ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

As Japan faces a caregiver shortage, a new survey shows that trust, not age, shapes willingness to adopt home-care robots and ...

Hospitals and senior living centers are leading the adoption of service robots that handle basic support tasks. Experts predict home-assistant robots capable of physical caregiving are still 10–15 ...

Yukiko Namekata, a resident at an elder care facility in Tokyo run by Zenkoukai, and her caregiver follow the movement of a miniature humanoid robot called PALRO. At top, AIREC, an artificial ...

If you never thought you could own a companion robot--one that could chat with you, snuggle when you're glum, rub up against you for attention, and coo when you stroke it--think again. The recent ...

Hidden away in a lab in north-west London three black metal robotic hands move eerily on an engineering work bench. No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and closing slowly, with ...