{"id":361026,"date":"2018-05-13T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-elderly-will-be-cared-for-by-robots-to-solve-staff-shortage\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:23:53","slug":"prison-planet-com-elderly-will-be-cared-for-by-robots-to-solve-staff-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-elderly-will-be-cared-for-by-robots-to-solve-staff-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Elderly will be cared for by ROBOTS to solve staff shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/958844\/uk-care-homes-robots-elderly\"><strong>UK Express<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 13, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The humanoid companions, which are equipped with artificial intelligence, will be able to recognise the needs and emotions of frail, elderly residents.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They will take the strain off overburdened care workers and as they get to know their charges will adapt their conversations to subjects of interest to them.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a32.5million EU-funded trial in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire and Advinia Health Care, one of the UK\u2019s largest care providers, will be launched in September.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chris Papadopoulos, principal lecturer in public health at the university, said: \u201cThese robots are able to adapt, learn and tailor their conversations according to what they find out about an individual just as two people might do in a normal conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/958844\/uk-care-homes-robots-elderly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, May 13, 2018  at  4:45 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/elderly-will-be-cared-for-by-robots-to-solve-staff-shortage.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/elderly-will-be-cared-for-by-robots-to-solve-staff-shortage.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK ExpressMay 13, 2018 The humanoid companions, which are equipped with artificial intelligence, will be able to recognise the needs and emotions of frail, elderly residents.\u00a0 They will take the strain off overburdened care workers and as they get to know their charges will adapt their conversations to subjects of interest to them. A \u00a32.5million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}