It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her hip ...

Yong Suk Lee, associate professor of technology, economy and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Facing high employee turnover and an aging ...

The rapidly increasing aging population will lead to a shortage of care providers in the future. While robotic technologies are a potential alternative, their widespread use is limited by poor ...

Picture the scene: You move into a nursing home in the final years of your life, when you are no longer able to manage on your own. And there you discover the future. The place teems with humanoid ...

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

New research suggests that using robots in nursing homes has a positive influence on employee retention, hiring rates and resident care. The study examined robotics implementation in a nursing home in ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and ...

Visions of robots, enchanted forests, and, most importantly, love flowed freely at a lucky Blanchester, OH, nursing home recently. Residents at Continental Manor were able to let their imagination run ...

Picture the scene: You move into a nursing home in the final years of your life, when you are no longer able to manage on your own. And there you discover the future. The place teems with humanoid ...

Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among caregivers ...