Kimiya Ishikawa, chief executive of Silver Wing Social Care Corporation which runs Shintomi, said Japan's affinity for technology and the familiarity of robots ... make Japan's elderly care ...

CNN The semi-autonomous robot is called Adam and is able to carry picked produce across difficult terrain as well as cut grass and spray fields with pesticides. Blum, an Israeli-American who first ...

One care home in Florence, Italy, is already using Robot-Era to help care for 20 of its elderly ... of social skills. Robots can also monitor eye movements in young children, helping with early ...

For the elderly, the promise of robotic ... or pour a glass of wine, robots could soon be a constant companion, especially in places like Japan, with aging populations and a shortage of human ...