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Loughborough Academics Develop Robots To Care For Elderly

Robots that look after frail elderly people in their homes are being developed by academics. The I’M-ACTIVE project is being worked on by experts at Loughborough University, in Leicestershire. The work looks at ways to install sensors to monitor vulnerable...

Robots Rise to Meet the Challenge of Caring for Old People

As a teenager in the early 2000s, Conor McGinn worked part-time in the nursing home where his grandmother lived. The employees did all they could to make her and other residents comfortable, but McGinn says her quality of life was never as good as it was before. “The...

Robots in UK to Reduce Loneliness

Robots that can hold simple conversations and learn people’s interests are to be deployed in some UK care homes after an international trial found they boosted mental health and reduced loneliness. The wheeled robots, called “Pepper”, move independently and gesture...