Europe Bets on Robots to Help Care for Seniors
From: Bloomberg Business - 03/17/2016
By: Nick Leiber

Mechanical aides can pick up groceries and take out the trash.

Retiree Maurizio Feraboli taps a grocery list into a tablet and sends wheeled
robots to retrieve food from a store near his apartment outside Pisa, Italy.
His neighbor Wanda Mascitelli directs robots to grab the trash from her
kitchen and drop it into a dumpster on her street. A robot also warns
Mascitelli about a possible gas leak and later brings her a glass of water
and a bottle of vitamins.

These scenes are from a video promoting the European research project
Robot-Era, which recently concluded the world’s largest real-life trial of
robot aides for the elderly. About 160 seniors in Italy and Sweden tested the
robots during the four-year project.

By one estimate, 32,500 robots designed to help care for the elderly and
disabled will be sold from 2015 through 2018.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/europe-bets-on-robots-to-help-care-for-seniors

Links:
Robot-Era (with video 16:13)
http://www.robot-era.eu/robotera

Robosoft
http://www.robosoft.com/en/home

Kompai robots
http://kompai.com

Source: CoverAGE #65 - Aging 2.0
https://www.aging2.com