FUJITSU DEVELOPS TEDDY BEAR ROBOT NURSE
June 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOME say, as we grow old, we regress into our childhood - and certainly Japanese robot designers think so: Fujitsu is developing a teddy bear android as a nursing aid for old people's homes. Japan, notoriously, is an ageing society, with 23% of the country's 127 million population now aged 65 or more. And its government and society continues to oppose mass immigration to correct its demographic profile with more working age citizens. So, robots are being developed apace to ease labour shortages. Nursing is one profession where there are ...
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