Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Even in Japan, robots are a long way from being fully-fledged carers – here’s why

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par Giulia De Togni, Chancellor's Fellow, School of Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and carefully. The engineers hold their breath.

I am in a robotics lab in Tokyo, Japan, as part of my Wellcome research fellowship. The engineers have repeated this test hundreds of times…

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