Aging In Place Technology Watch May 1, 2025
An AI tech agent on our behalf – predicted long ago. Consider the definition: “An AI agent is a system that perceives its environment, makes decisions, and takes actions to achieve specific goals, often autonomously.” At first look, that seems quite scary and is reminiscent of two quite predictive fictions: HAL 9000 in 2001 (“Sorry, Dave, I can’t do that”) or the robot in the Robot and Frank (2012) that takes care of every need of a lonely man with dementia, then assists him in committing crimes.
But imagine AI agents that perceive their environment and are actually helpful. This is possible today and has been applied in multiple business applications – doing inventory and demand management, handling customer...







