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Will Robots Cheer Up the Elderly?

Posted by chrisd on from the rhetorical-question dept.

Drath writes "Researchers at Purdue University are conducting a study by placing Sony Aibo robots in a Lafayette, IN nursing home. They want to see if robots can make people happy. Lets hope they have robot insurance." Makes you wonder if the AARP will have a position paper on this. Hope when I get old(er) I'll have gold plated killer robots around for my entertainment. pycananthemum also was kind enough sent in a link to the Project page.

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  1. Heartless Purdue researchers by f00zbll · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Geezus, f_cking chr_st. What idiot researcher is getting paid good money to do such an assinine study. Let's think about this for a second. Old people are the reason why we exist, since they had the love and energy to raise us. Therefore we should A. cast them aside, B. pair them up with robots, C. change our lives to take of them. The sooner our culture realizes people are really more important than careers and money, a lot of problems would be solved. Which would mean some smart grad student or researcher would be doing research that actually does some good, instead of being a total waste of time.