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Over 77 million baby boomers will retire in the next 30 years, and robots are ready to assist with elder care. Engineers have created a robotic assistant that can recognize medical emergencies and call 911, remind clients to take their medication, help with grocery shopping and cleaning and allow retirees to communicate with loved ones.
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a robot, designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, that moves autonomously to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table. The new robotic communication method may help robots find their way into the home sooner.
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The venture capital community has mixed feelings about the robotics industry, the result of few applications and fewer success stories. But can the same the same yardstick used to gauge success for say, Web 2.0 startups (or Web Bubble 1.0), be applied to robotics?
Leading Internet retailer cites flexibility and performance as keys to decision.
