One solution for elder care, especially #Brain Journey Network patients that will vastly outnumber the people who can care for them could be robots.  It's a somewhat sad black mirror of where we're heading, but is this #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿 is inevitable or an abdication of our social responsibility to one another?  

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092604/how-cuddly-robots-could-change-dementia-care/?ref=platformer.news

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How cuddly robots could change dementia care

Brain Journey Network

Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿

ScholER

One solution for elder care, especially #Brain Journey Network patients that will vastly outnumber the people who can care for them could be robots.  It's a somewhat sad black mirror of where we're heading, but is this #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿 is inevitable or an abdication of our social responsibility to one another?    https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092604/how-cuddly-robots-could-change-dementia-care/?ref=platformer.news   #ScholER

Todd Smith

China leads the #Artificial Intelligence companion boom, fusing plush toys with generative AI to tap into an $11 billion domestic market by 2026.

Products like Ropet and BubblePal show how #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 startups are integrating GPT-powered personality engines into temperature-controlled, tactile shells.

Local VCs, including traditionally cautious investors like GSR Ventures, are backing emotion-first tech aimed at Gen Z and single adults.

The next battlegrounds: emotional AI regulation, data privacy, and how long users will pay for friendship.

 #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿  

https://open.substack.com/pub/chinainnovationwatch/p/china-ai-companions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4095562&post_id=166887408&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fu3&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDUyMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTY2ODg3NDA4LCJpYXQiOjE3NTE1NDc5OTgsImV4cCI6MTc1NDEzOTk5OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwOTU1NjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.kJOYXQ8Dd-HIYsrNmhy2C96mQpZ6nX37PwASn5JsSf0

Artificial Intelligence

🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖

China leads the #Artificial Intelligence companion boom, fusing plush toys with generative AI to tap into an $11 billion domestic market by 2026.  Products like Ropet and BubblePal show how #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 startups are integrating GPT-powered personality engines into temperature-controlled, tactile shells.  Local VCs, including traditionally cautious investors like GSR Ventures, are backing emotion-first tech aimed at Gen Z and single adults.  The next battlegrounds: emotional AI regulation, data privacy, and how long users will pay for friendship.   #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿    https://open.substack.com/pub/chinainnovationwatch/p/china-ai-companions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4095562&post_id=166887408&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fu3&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDUyMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTY2ODg3NDA4LCJpYXQiOjE3NTE1NDc5OTgsImV4cCI6MTc1NDEzOTk5OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwOTU1NjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.kJOYXQ8Dd-HIYsrNmhy2C96mQpZ6nX37PwASn5JsSf0

Fusing tactile design with emotional intelligence, China’s AI companion boom is reshaping global norms in consumer tech, monetization, and intimacy engineering.

China’s next interface: AI companions

Cyril

For those of you interested, here are the graphs for Japan, USA, Italy and China where you can see the age dependency with the breakdown of young people in blue and old people in red. The people who were once in the blue band only appear in the red one 50 years later. 
The thickness of the red in Italy for example is why very few people in places in Italy hope to ever get a government pension. 
In the next 20 years we'll see a massive inheritance wealth transfer from boomers to their kids, if that gets passed on directly to the grand children it might allow for a baby boom again.

 #Data is beautiful 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-dependency-breakdown?country=JPN~USA~ITA~CHN

Data is beautiful

For those of you interested, here are the graphs for Japan, USA, Italy and China where you can see the age dependency with the breakdown of young people in blue and old people in red. The people who were once in the blue band only appear in the red one 50 years later.  The thickness of the red in Italy for example is why very few people in places in Italy hope to ever get a government pension.  In the next 20 years we'll see a massive inheritance wealth transfer from boomers to their kids, if that gets passed on directly to the grand children it might allow for a baby boom again.   #Data is beautiful   https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-dependency-breakdown?country=JPN~USA~ITA~CHN

Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents (either children aged 0-14 years, or older populations aged over 64 years) to the working age population (15-64 years). Data shows the relative composit

Age dependency breakdown by young and old dependents

Elderly users in China’s smaller towns and counties are adopting AI at surprising speed, relying on voice interaction and simple interfaces.

 #A Glance of China 行摄中国 
 #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 


https://www.ciw.news/p/china-ai-adoptions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4095562&post_id=160251350&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDUyMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYwMjUxMzUwLCJpYXQiOjE3NDM2ODg0ODksImV4cCI6MTc0NjI4MDQ4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwOTU1NjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.vmy3Cc1PYcp31F7pRDR8hd1HBTPvwNyhDWlv0Zig6nk&r=fu3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

A Glance of China 行摄中国

Elderly users in China’s smaller towns and counties are adopting AI at surprising speed, relying on voice interaction and simple interfaces.   #A Glance of China 行摄中国   #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖    https://www.ciw.news/p/china-ai-adoptions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4095562&post_id=160251350&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDUyMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYwMjUxMzUwLCJpYXQiOjE3NDM2ODg0ODksImV4cCI6MTc0NjI4MDQ4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwOTU1NjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.vmy3Cc1PYcp31F7pRDR8hd1HBTPvwNyhDWlv0Zig6nk&r=fu3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

How China's elderly are quietly fueling AI adoption beyond big tech hubs—and reshaping the digital divide along the way. Apps like Doubao, Kimi, and DeepSeek are becoming household names not through c

China's silent AI revolution is happening in small towns

Nate

In a sign of the growing importance of robotics in China’s economy, the state statistics agency has introduced a new data series on “service robots” in its monthly industrial output report, in addition to the existing “industrial robots” category. 

While the country is already the world’s leading industrial robot market, its service robot sector – including professional, consumer, and medical robots – is also rapidly growing, fuelled by the rise of start-ups like Unitree Robotics and UBTech Robotics. 

 #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿 
 #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 
 #ScholER 

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3302720/china-debuts-economic-data-service-robots-humanoid-industry-grows?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cm&utm_campaign=enlz-insidechinatech&utm_content=20250321&tpcc=enlz-insidechinatech&UUID=810ab81034dec15e3bb0ff25f2547918&tc=9

In a sign of the growing importance of robotics in China’s economy, the state statistics agency has introduced a new data series on “service robots” in its monthly industrial output report, in addition to the existing “industrial robots” category.   While the country is already the world’s leading industrial robot market, its service robot sector – including professional, consumer, and medical robots – is also rapidly growing, fuelled by the rise of start-ups like Unitree Robotics and UBTech Robotics.    #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿   #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖   #ScholER   https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3302720/china-debuts-economic-data-service-robots-humanoid-industry-grows?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cm&utm_campaign=enlz-insidechinatech&utm_content=20250321&tpcc=enlz-insidechinatech&UUID=810ab81034dec15e3bb0ff25f2547918&tc=9

Service robots outperformed industrial robots in both growth and output in January and February, according to the statistics bureau.

China reveals economic data on service robots for the first time

Bobby

https://robotics.the.select/posts/nbqwdmw?linkId=ppmm

With the way demographics are trending, there’s no choice

On one side: "Where are the humans helping humans?"

On the other: "There is a shortage of staff in healthcare"

In this video by Tencent we see a robot working in tandem with a nurse.

Potentially th

Todd Smith

A group of likeminded people in ScholER are talking about this.