Carer Robot

• Paro (Japan)
• therapeutic robotic seal
• Japan robots will care for 80 of elderly by 2020
• With Japan’s ageing society facing a predicted shortfall of 370,000 caregivers by 2025, the government wants to increase community acceptance of technology that could help fill the gap in the nursing workforce.
• JUVA (from project Chiron@UK) 
• In less than 20 years’ time the number of over 65s in the UK, currently at 10 million, will have risen to 17 million. Yet estimates show we won’t have sufficient care workers to tend to this ageing population. 

"Ultimately, carer robots will augment rather than replace human carers, as robotics could never replicate the companionship that comes from a flesh-and-blood carer"

Reference: will-we-ever-have-robot-carers