Intuition Robotics

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Intuition Robotics today announced that it has expanded its AI-drive companion robot capabilities to provide care for older adults at home.

Boston-based Intuition Robotics designed the ElliQ empathetic companion robot to help increase patient engagement and improve the patient experience to give primary care providers continuous data and insights for early detection and intervention of clinical conditions.

The empathetic digital companion robot is designed to curb loneliness and social isolation in older adults. It is a goal-based system that uses years of research and studies to combine psychology, behavioral sciences and advanced cognitive AI capabilities.

ElliQ has been in some older adults’s homes for the past two years and the experiment has shown that each older adult completed approximately 150 successful goal-oriented interactions with the robot pe…