German robotics startup Devanthro has unveiled its latest generation of telepresence robots, specifically designed for caring at home. Robody's newest version boasts a fully redesigned torso and arms, ...

Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among caregivers ...

AI-powered robot Nurabot is designed to help nurses with repetitive tasks, in a bid to reduce their workload and mitigate global healthcare staff shortages.

Advances in medicine have led to an increase in human longevity. Estimates suggest that by 2030, one in every six individuals globally will be aged over 60 years. This rapid increase in the aging ...

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 ...

Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your ...

The U.S. is about to face a reckoning when it comes to its 65-and-older population outnumbering children for the first time. But other nations — including Japan — are facing an even steeper ratio of ...

People aged 65 and older already make up about 15 percent of its 1.4 billion citizens, according to United Nations data.

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 19-48 (30 pages) “Care robots” offer technological solutions to increasing needs for care just as economic ...