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McKnight's Senior Living recently published an article with the headline, "Report Predicts 39 Million Robot Shipments A Year By 2024." A new report from ABI Research predicts that number of home care and personal/social robots a year will be shipped, and that almost 79 million homes around the world will have robots in them.
According to the article, "[r]obotic capabilities will be particularly useful for older adults who are aging in place or for ambient assisted living end-users" Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) tools are designed to be sensitive and responsive to the presence of people, and include, for example. robots that can detect falls, or track a person's health.
According to Jonathan Collins, smart home research director at the research company:
"Robotic device start-ups such as Intuition Robotics and Blue Frog Robotics already target the AAL market with devices that can integrate with smart home systems. “While home care robots release residents from time-consuming and repetitive tasks, social robots offer the potential to further extend into physically interacting in homes and the individuals within them in ways that can go beyond monitoring into the realm of kinship and socialization.”
Amazon and Google are positioned well to lead in social robot advances because artificial intelligence and voice recognition are the basis of their Alexa and Assistant platforms, which are already popular, the report authors stated.
This blog has repeatedly reported articles that support the proposition that technology is providing solutions for Aging in Place planning precisely at the time when these solutions are most needed.
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