Posted on 12/19/2017 4:00:58 PM PST by BenLurkin
Malle said they don't want to make overblown promises of what the cat can do, something he and his fellow researcher -computer science professor Michael Littman -said they've seen in other robots on the market. They hope to make a cat that would perform a small set of tasks very well. They also want to keep it affordable, just a few hundred dollars. The current version costs $100. They've given the project a name that gets at that idea: Affordable Robotic Intelligence for Elderly Support, or ARIES. The team includes researchers from Brown's medical school, area hospitals and a designer at the University of Cincinnati.
It's an idea that has appeal to Jeanne Elliott, whose 93-year-old mother, Mary Derr, lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has mild dementia and the Joy for All cat Elliott purchased this year has become a true companion for Derr, keeping her company and soothing her while Elliott is at work. Derr treats it like a real cat, even though she knows it has batteries.
"Mom has a tendency to forget things," she said, adding that a cat reminding her "we don't have any appointments today, take your meds, be careful when you walk, things like that, be safe, reassuring things, to have that available during the day would be awesome."
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LOL, I remember reading about a nursing home that brought a real cat in, and the cat could somehow sense when people were really sick and it would preferentially go to them...
It became the Cat of Death!
People didn’t want it coming into their room...:)
That was on House
"...cat with AI..."
LOL, I think it is hilarious! (I think I saw it in an article that said dogs can smell cancer...)
I'd rather have an AI Rocket.
/s
Kitteh ping
Wow, that’s the good stuff. I am partially deaf and can often read lips and that’s pretty close to the caption.
No kitty litter to clean up.
Sweet.
I am getting older and have really severe health issues and would welcome a real cat, even the famed ‘death cat’. I have no illusions about what’s coming.
I have loved God’s animals all of my life and have a special partiality to cats. I’d rather have a real one come and visit. I got ahold of a feral Maine Coon once. I got him and he got me. After my first major heart surgery, he knew not to do his usual thing of getting on top of me at bedtime and seeing me off to sleep before creeping off to do nocturnal cat stuff. I didn’t have to tell him.
and will not cause elderly to trip / fall down the stairs like a real cat./s
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