Are robots the solution to the crisis in older-person care?
Interactive therapeutic robot Paro keeps a resident company at a nursing home in Japan.Credit: Noriko Hayashi/Panos Pictures Clara Berridge, an ethicist at the University of Washington, Seattle, recalls a story told by a colleague to a group of health-care and social-work students. Nature Outlook: Robotics and artificial intelligence An older man in a nursing home … Read more