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A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?
The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer
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According to ABC News’s source item, A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?, The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer
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