Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses in Your Lonely Final Years from Wired.com Toyota is developing "partner robots" to serve in hospitals and homes, with expectations to start selling this year. In part spurred by the shifting demographics (towards a higher percentage of elderly), Toyota envisions a variety of roles these robots could play.
Toyota isn't a maverick in this -- Japan’s Machine Industry Memorial Foundation projects the country could save $21 billion annually by using robots to care for the elderly. The government is also drafting safety regulations for all kinds of personal service robots . A new agency, the Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, has launched a five-year project to improve safety standards for the machines.
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