Robin the robot keeps good company: nursing home residents
By
Joe Bush
Nov 22, 2022
One of our core values is ‘Love’,” said Andrew Stephenson, administrator at Riverwalk Post-Acute in Riverside, CA, “but that doesn’t mean it always has to come from a human.”
Robotic support pets may carry microbes: Disinfection works, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 31, 2020
A simple cleaning process brought infectious microbes to undetectable levels in a variety of support robot brands after residents handled them for 20 minutes.
Nursing home robots could come soon, if Japanese government funding pays off
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 30, 2013
The government of Japan will fund the development of four different kinds of robots that could perform essential tasks in nursing homes, the Japan Daily Press reported Monday.