Joan Gage: Do You Want To End Your Days Talking To A Robot?

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The dad, Frank, protests, "I'm not this pathetic!"</p> <p>The reporter then cites facts showing that, as the baby boomer generation ages, the number of elderly people needing care is skyrocketing (72.1 million Americans by 2030 -- double today's number) while the number of potential poorly paid caregivers is dwindling. Hence, a variety of robots are already available to take care of elderly patients.</p> <p>There's <strong>Cody</strong>, a robotic nurse who is allegedly "gentle enough to bathe elderly patients".</p> <p>There is <strong>HERB </strong>(for Home Exploring Robot Butler) who can fetch household objects like cups and can even clean the kitchen.</p> <p><strong>Hector</strong> is a robot that can remind patients to take their medicines, keep track of eyeglasses and even help in the case of a fall.</p> <p>There's <strong>Paro</strong>, a therapeutic robot that looks like a baby seal and has a calming effect on patients with dementia and Alzheimer's.</p> <p><strong>PR2</strong>, a robot designed at Carnegie Mellon, works with people who have autism -- it can blink and giggle as people interact with it. The man who designed it said, "Those we tested it with, love it and hugged it."</p> <p>Wendy A Rogers, a professor at Georgia Tech and director of its Human Factors and Aging Lab said, <em>"We are social beings, and we do develop social types of relationships with lots of things."</em> She noted that patients with <strong>Roomba</strong>, the vacuum robot, tend to give their machines names and even buy costumes for them.</p> <p>Some people, like me, react to all this news about helpful robots with serious reservations. Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT and author of the book <em>Alone Together</em> said she was troubled when she saw a 76-year-old woman sharing stories about her life with her baby-seal <strong>Paro</strong> robot. "This is sad," Professor Turkle said.<em> "We have been reduced to spectators of a conversation that has no meaning. Giving old people robots to talk to is a dystopian view that is being classified as utopian."</em></p> <p>The <em>Times</em> reporter does point out the ethical questions raised by tricking patients into thinking their robots are human and can understand them, and adds: <em>"That's the catch. Leaving the questions of ethics aside for the moment, building robots is not simply about creating smart machines; it is about making something that is not human still appear, somehow, trustworthy."</em></p> <p>I realized after reading the article that health care robots appear to be the inevitable result of a society that isolates its old people instead of incorporating them as venerated members of the tribe, cared for by all the younger members together. 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The CMU robot for people with autism that can blink and giggle is called Romibo. It was designed by Aubrey Shick at CMU's Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center (not by QoLT's Executive Director, Jim Osborn, as indicated in the NY Times).<br/> <br/> Researchers at the QoLT Center are appreciative of end users' perspectives on the development of its assistive devices. The Center dedicates significant resources (in Human-System Interaction and Person & Society research) towards exploring optimal designs that real users will genuinely accept and adopt. These teams include leading experts not just in robotics and engineering but also gerontology, psychology, social services, healthcare and health policy.<br/> <br/> Popular culture tends to portray robotics within its traditional legacy of replacing humans - either for safety or efficiency - (i.e. rescue or manufacturing robots). But the assistive and personal robotics trends emerging today offer a different paradigm in which artifically intelligent systems are intended to enhance what a human user can do alone. These systems are truly meant to work symbiotically and collaboratively WITH a person ONLY when and where a person really wants or absolutely needs that technological assistance. Here, human experience is central to system design. While the science to create systems that can operate in our complex human worlds flawlessly is not yet perfected; I want to assure readers that our cherished human values are not absent from this R&D; process. </div> <div class="comment_bottom clearfix"> <a href="#" class="comment_button" onclick="Comments.displayReplyBox(255487584,3306632, ''); return false;"> <span class="comments_pixie reply_button"></span> </a> <div class="comment_links_section"> <div id="comment_share_255487584_data_title" class="hidden">Kristen_Sabol: Minor corrections: The PR2 is a largescale personal robot (similar</div> <div id="comment_share_255487584_data_link" class="hidden">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kristen_Sabol/robots-and-the-elderly-do-you-want-to-end_b_3306632_255487584.html</div> <span class="history hidden"> <a class="comment_action" onclick="Comments.showHistory(255487584, 3306632)"> History </a> | </span> <a class="comment_permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130528204110/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kristen_Sabol/robots-and-the-elderly-do-you-want-to-end_b_3306632_255487584.html"> Permalink </a>  | <a id="comment_share_255487584" class="share_comment_popup_trigger comment_share_link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130528204110/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kristen_Sabol/robots-and-the-elderly-do-you-want-to-end_b_3306632_255487584.html"> Share it </a> </div> </div> <div id="reply_ajax_for_255487584" class="reply_box ajax_loaded hidden"></div> </div>   <div id="comment_children_255487584" class="comment_children "> </div>  <div id="comment_hide_response_255487584" class="comment_form_message" style="display:none"> This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. <a class="vertical_color" href="#" onclick="Comments.viewComment(255487584, 3306632); return false;"><i>View comment</i></a>  </div> <div id="comment_response_error_255487584" class="comment_form_message" style="display:none"> You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. </div> <div id="comment_spinner_pager" style="display:none;"> <h2> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130528204110im_/http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/spinner.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="spinner"/> Loading comments… </h2> </div>  <div id="comment_255279042" class="comment_item published_comment " style="margin-left: 0px; display:block"> <div class="comment_top"> <div class="comment_top_inner clearfix"> <div id="comment_icons_255279042" class="float_right"> </div>  <a class="author_photo" href="/web/20130528204110/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/wmjackson?action=comments"><img class="unloaded-image" alt="photo" src="/web/20130528204110im_/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/images/trans.gif" longdesc="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/twitter_profile_img/3708817.png"/></a> <div class="author_name "> <a class="arial_14 bold vertical_color" href="/web/20130528204110/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/wmjackson?action=comments">wmjackson</a> <div class="bio_teaser clearfix"> </div> <div class="author_fans"> <a class="author_fans_count float_left padding_top_2" href="/web/20130528204110/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/wmjackson">23 Fans</a> <div class="comments-tw-follow float_left"> <div id="twitter-follow-button-1646702450" class="twttr-fw-btn"> <div id="frame-twitter-follow-button-1646702450" class="hidden"></div> <div class="container"> <a class="fw-button" title="Follow @wmjackson on Twitter" onmouseover="HPTwitter.Widgets.activateFollowButton({'node_id':'twitter-follow-button-1646702450','query':'show_count=false&show_screen_name=false&text_color=dark&button=blue&lang=en&style%5Bwidth%5D=65px&screen_name=wmjackson','style':'style=\'width:65px;\''});"> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> 08:38 PM on 05/22/2013 </div> During my engineering class I use Youtube videos to start discussions about robots. Japan and China have developed so many robots that they are already integrating them with the elderly. Their society is aging rapidly so to nurture and entertain their elderly people, robots are being developed and produced to work with and take care of their elderly populations. Ethics are a second thought when you have a society of young professionals that do not want to sit with their elderly parents or because of jobs and family of their own cannot afford the time to stay and take care of the elderly. <br/> So the other option are robots. </div> <div class="comment_bottom clearfix"> <a href="#" class="comment_button" onclick="Comments.displayReplyBox(255279042,3306632, ''); return false;"> <span class="comments_pixie reply_button"></span> </a> <div class="comment_links_section"> <div id="comment_share_255279042_data_title" class="hidden">wmjackson: During my engineering class I use Youtube videos to start</div> <div id="comment_share_255279042_data_link" class="hidden">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/wmjackson/robots-and-the-elderly-do-you-want-to-end_b_3306632_255279042.html</div> <span class="history hidden"> <a class="comment_action" onclick="Comments.showHistory(255279042, 3306632)"> History </a> | </span> <a class="comment_permalink" 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