Robot Nurse ApriAttenda

Toshiba’s ApriAttenda

Japan, with a high life expectancy and low birth rate, faces a shortage of caregivers for elderly people and has loosened its tight immigration rules to invite hundreds of nurses from the Philippines and Indonesia.

“As aging of the population is a common problem for developed countries, Japan wants to become an advanced country in the area of addressing the aging society with the use of robots“, said ministry of trade and industry official Motoki Korenaga.

Japan plans robo-nurses in five years: govt, AFP, 26th March

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury is one of the science fiction writers who saw this trend clearly more than forty years ago. In I Sing the Body Electric! he writes about an electrical grandmother who takes care of the young and the old alike

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