Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shortages.
If I were left to languish in a nursing home cared for by understaffed nurses and missing genuine human interactions with my family or whatever, and a bot emulating a 7 year old showed up and tried to cheer me up by playing my favourite song, I would start a riot.
It’s definitely pretty tone-deaf.
If I were left to languish in a nursing home cared for by understaffed nurses and missing genuine human interactions with my family or whatever, and a bot emulating a 7 year old showed up and tried to cheer me up by playing my favourite song, I would start a riot.