Robots Aren’t the Solution to Elder Care w/ James Wright
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Problems With Pepper Robotics
The robot Pepper was seen by the care staff as being kind of the most robot-y robot. It took a lot of work for pepper to learn how to read emotions, so in most commercial applications, that functionality was never used. Care workers found if they just wheeled pepper to the front, explain what pepper was to the residents, which they had to do on a daily basis, the residents wouldn't really do what pepper was telling them to do.
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