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Robot Assistance or Robot Invasion?

Published October 8, 2014 at 12:52 AM EDT

If you have an older parent living on their own, would you feel more comfortable if you had a way to monitor them and their living conditions from afar? Our next guest says she hopes to start testing just such a system soon by installing robot monitors in assisted living centers in the Midlands of South Carolina.

Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Jenay Beer, a computer science and social work professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Assistive Robotics and Tech Lab links: Artlab, SmartHome

South Carolina Business Review