Friendly robots chat to pensioners after study finds they reduce loneliness
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dailystar.co.ukrobot has got a new job chatting to pensioners. The state-of-the art AI are being rolled out in care homes after a study showed they can reduce loneliness among residents.Bosses at UK dementia-care provider Advinia Health Care say they are "working towards bringing the robot into routine care" after Pepper passed her "probation".The semi-humanoid robot reads real human emotions by analysing voice tones and facial expressions.But she was sacked for incompetence just one week after being hired as a supermarket service bot in Edinburgh, Scotland, two years ago.Now researchers looking into developing the first-ever "culturally competent" robots found elderly residents responded well to her.The study, involving the University of Bedfordshire,.
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