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[br]When it comes to robots in our home, there are a few well-worn tropes to which we’ve grown accustomed. There’s the friendly Rosie the Robot that brings us our futuristic food and slippers. Then there’s the fatalistic, sci-fi view in which any humanoid robot is just a step towards a Terminator- or Matrix-style dystopia in which humans are reduced to a nuisance or a power supply, respectively. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, however, there was an assortment of robots designed to monitor a person’s health and intervene if something goes wrong. And those helpful little bots may be the last thing you see before the squishy, inefficient, meat-based machine we call a body gives up the ghost.[br]
[br][br]The Bot Care interface let's caretakers monitor a patient's vitals from afar.[br][br]The most high-profile health helper bot at the show was Samsung’s Bot Care. Revealed during Samsung’s massive press conference, the hip-high robot is part of Samsung’s new robotics platform; others include an automated pal designed to help people in retail shopping environments, and another designed to filter pollution from the air in your home.[br][br]From the outside, Bot Care looks a lot like the robots we’ve come to expect at CES. It has a decidedly Pixar vibe with friendly eyes plastered across a digital display that doubles as its face. It’s adorable, which makes sense for a device that’s meant to act as a companion for a human.[br][br]It’s easy to imagine Bot Care cruising around the home of an older person who wants to keep living alone, but needs some assistance with regular health tasks. On-stage, the company demoed Bot Care’s ability to remind companions when they need to take a pill—and alert them if they’re inadvertently taking too much of a specific medication.[br][br] |
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发表于 2019-04-14 18:30:44
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