Health Populi May 23, 2019
Samsung introduced BotCare, a caring robot, at CES 2019. BotCare is part of the company’s Bixby, an AI platform that supports Samsung’s robotic offerings for environmental health (air), retail, and healthcare. Think: medication reminders and around-the-house services that a human homecare aid might perform, among other medical support tasks.
But visions of Rosie-the-Robot serving up healthcare at home is beyond most consumers’ desires at this moment, according to a new survey published by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), Robotics: Current Landscape & Consumer Perceptions.
Most U.S. adults have positive views toward robotics in general, CTA found. There’s optimism for use of robotics in many consumer applications, such as education and STEM, household tasks, leisure and recreation, delivery, retail and hospitality.
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