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Robots Aren’t the Solution to Elder Care w/ James Wright

Tech Won't Save Us

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Is Care Really a Part of the Engineering Problem?

The author spent a few months with robotics engineers and programmers at this National Institute. They weren't actually developing robots themselves directly. But seeing their work, I kind of got a sense of how they were approaching care as a kind of engineering problem. There is this danger that if you just see care as a series of individual tasks, you just have this really flattened vision of what care is.

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