Appropriate intervention is needed in such cases," said Liu Min, vice-president of the care home. She said it was impossible ...

A home robot developed by Chinese home appliance manufacturer Haier is displayed during an expo in Shanghai in March last year. CHEN YUYU/FOR CHINA DAILY At Shenzhen Nursing Home, robots are now ...

The idea of using the robots was to eliminate employees from having to complete repetitive tasks, and in turn allowing them to focus more on resident interactions.

A robot like Stevie can be useful in care homes in a number of ways. Some are fairly simple and practical: for example, its face can double as a video-conferencing screen, enabling a resident to ...

A resident at Maison Ferrari, a retirement home in Clamart ... This woman at a long-term care facility in Montgeron, France, treated the robot as a confidant. They were indoors, but she imagined ...

The 150-kg (330 lb) artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future “caregiver” for Japan’s rapidly ageing population and chronic shortage of aged-care workers.

The 80 or so operators of the robot are called “pilots,” and they work from home. They include people who cannot commute to work because of illness, child care responsibilities and other reasons.