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 ...

Around the world, health care workers are in short supply, with a shortage of 4.5 million nurses expected by 2030, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Nurses are already feeling the ...

Robots might seem like inhumane stopgaps to care for aging elders, but once this technology proves itself, it will present ...

A nationwide survey in Japan shows divides in acceptance of home-care robots. Surprisingly, openness and trust, rather than age, determine whether people are willing to let robots into their homes and ...

Transformer mannequin at Ripley's Believe It or Not in London, 2020 (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital) Would you welcome a robot into your home? Guess what: You probably already have. That’s if you use ...