euronews hi-tech - Automated aid

Meet Hobbit the Robot - with a penchant for picking things up, he has been designed with perhaps society’s largest group of technophobes in mind; the elderly. Dr. Markus Vincze, who leads the project at the University of Vienna, explains the rationale for an elderly-friendly robot: “Care organisations say that falling at home is one of the biggest problems when getting older. And for that we wanted to have a solution that is mobile, not attached to the person because t