With staffing shortages at senior communities across the country and concerns about isolation among older adults, some researchers are betting on social robots to fill the gaps. A robot named Ryan, ...

The North Carolina-based company CareYaya has developed the Yaya Bear, a soft, AI-powered social robotic companion designed ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks ...

Home assistance robots are still a far cry from the futuristic vision companies like Tesla have imagined for us, but they can be legitimately helpful in some circumstances. New York State has found ...

New York state officials will distribute robots to hundreds of elderly residents, saying the digital companions will remind them to take their medication, help contact loved ones, book an Uber ride ...

AI is taking a back seat to AC at the Worth Public Library, which is deploying artificial cuteness as part of a new collection of resources for older residents. “We’ve looked around to see what we can ...

The robot sold to provide "empathy" to the elderly hyped in a recent newspaper article is hardly an appropriate solution to the isolation of elderly people. Empathy is a human emotion, not programmed ...

The United States is not a great place for old people, to put it lightly. That’s not to mention the prospect of growing old in a society where your well-being is directly tied to your wage — as that ...

The Intuitive Computing Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University is recruiting participants for a study on community-based co-design of assistive robots to engage older adults in physical activity. The ...

The Intuitive Computing Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University is recruiting participants for an in-home robot study. The researchers are looking for individuals 65 or above, inclusive, with no ...

Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her hip ...