Robots help elderly in nursing home in east China

Updated: 2016-05-23 13:38

(xinhua/chinadaily.com.cn)

 

A-Tie, a nursing robot, chats with elders at a nursing home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, May 17, 2016. The robot is controlled by a mobile phone app and can do much more than remind patients to take their medicine. They can be used to make video calls, virtual consultations, or a portable television. [Photo/VCG]

Elderly people may forget things, but robots never do.

In the Hangzhou City Social Welfare Center in East China's Zhejiang province, five robots remind 1,300 seniors when to take their medicines.

"The average age of these seniors is more than 84," Zhao Huming, deputy-director of the center, tells Xinhua.

"They often forget to take their medicines, or they take more than what is prescribed."