Aging In Place Technology Watch March 19, 2025
Some subjects are perennials – like robots for older adults. Here we go again. This must be in some Fast Company editor’s standing list of topics – nothing else to write about so let’s do the robot-for-older-adults article again, this time written by futurists, comparing AI tech to physical robots – and asking real older adults what they think. You have to hand it to the interviewees – they know this is not a ‘robots’ topic. And they recognize ‘Advisor’ capability that already exists in Siri and Alexa – and that it is improving, though not (yet?) helping with human connections and isolation.
Despite enthusiasm about possibilities, the rest have little near term consumer potential. The ‘Butler’ category in...
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