Robot to help lonely old people in Japan
The robot, which speaks with the voice of either a boy or a girl, can be set to remind forgetful people when it is time to take medicine, eat and sleep. Wakamaru is the first household robot able to hold simple conversations, based on a vocabulary of around 10,000 words. It can not only speak but can understand answers and react accordingly.
Okay, fine. But if a society really wants to take care of its elderly, it would politely ask some of those engineers to leave their laboratory and go check on their aging parents.
An engineering job pays mroe than a nursing home job, but somebody's gotta pay for those robots. Oh well... I guess parents who use TV and computer games as babysitters will get robots to sit with them in their dotage.
Found via Girl Meets World.
I didn't know I was going to get such a response from that like.
Jen Cilia was up in arms about it. Wooo!
It really pays to look up controversial technology items.