New York state is distributing robot caretakers to some 800 elderly adults in an effort to combat a burgeoning epidemic of loneliness, the New York State Office for the Aging announced in a press release on Wednesday. Manufactured by Israeli company Intuition Robotics, the ElliQ bots being distributed to New …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed this week that his company’s in-development humanoid robots could form personalities that match their owners and become good companions, as well as laborers. After being asked on the Lex Fridman Podcast whether Tesla’s robots could serve as a “friend or assistant” and help combat loneliness, …
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While the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse has again turned the world’s attention to the beleaguered Caribbean state, it’s also put the spotlight back on the region’s historic relationship with its former colonial rulers. Whether the attack on Moïse last Wednesday at his home in the hills above Haiti’s …
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