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Norway ponders robot care for elderly
One step closer to a Jetson's world.
OSLO (Reuters) - Household robots may help human carers look after the growing number of elderly Norwegians in years to come, enabling them to live longer and more comfortably in their own homes, a project leader told Reuters on Thursday.Norway faces a growing shortage of health care staff over the next 5-10 years, and 2020 will be a crunch point when large numbers of post-World War 2 "baby boomers" leave the workforce.
Two employee groups have teamed up to see how robots and other hi-tech gadgets can be developed to help care for them.
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February 7, 2008 at 06:21 pm by Rob Peters, 1153 views, 11 comments
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The Eye of Bradat 20:05 on February 7th, 2008
my robot.
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at 20:12 on February 7th, 2008
Rob Peters, I like this story. It's good stuff.
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mdverdeat 20:30 on February 7th, 2008
This is the Transformers Onslaught, Original Generation 1.
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oddistat 20:55 on February 7th, 2008
Visit me at oddist.etsy.com,Human!
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at 23:14 on February 7th, 2008
Watercolor and glitter robot drawn for friend's son at a drawing jam
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at 00:21 on February 8th, 2008
Maybe these robots will help the elderly exercise by teaching them the robot dance.
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neilsloranceat 09:00 on February 8th, 2008
This is a drawing of my favorite robot from the film laputa,he is very friendly. nx
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el esechuckat 15:16 on February 8th, 2008
this is a model I made while taking maya lessons.
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at 16:54 on February 8th, 2008
Sony's robot at the 2004 CES show in Las Vegas
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clichtensteinat 17:45 on February 9th, 2008
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sannatiger209at 18:04 on February 9th, 2008
Hello!
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