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Amid an emerging national home care crisis, researchers in Hew Hampshire have developed a robot — it looks like iPad attached to a Roomba — to provide companion care for people with intellectual and physical disabilities.
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 develo...