TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Eighty-seven-year-old Setsuko Saeki has lived with a robot for a year in her spacious house at the foot of Mount Ishizuchi, the tallest mountain in western Japan.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Eighty-seven-year-old Setsuko Saeki has lived with a robot for a year in her spacious house at the foot of Mount Ishizuchi, the tallest mountain in western Japan.
Nursing care helpers visit her daily, and she regularly attends gatherings to enjoy her hobby of haiku poetry. Even so, she had often felt a loneliness that was hard to describe. A PaPeRo i robot is about 30cm tall. When Madam Saeki asks it,"What time is it?", it replies as its cheeks light up red. "Initially, I didn't expect anything after hearing about a robot. But now, I don't want to be parted from my PaPeRo," Madam Saeki said.
Also, about 90 per cent of the families of the users praised the project, saying it relieved their anxiety over their parents' living arrangements. However, there are many elderly people who are also hesitant to buy robots for fear they may be difficult to use. For such people, Benefit Japan, an Osaka-based firm selling Sharp's small RoBoHoN model robots, holds free events at which visitors can try out real RoBoHoN robots, in department stores and shopping malls across the nation.
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