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MIT’s AGNES, the ageing suit
07/27/2011
As the world’s population gets older, how are we going to manage?
Innovative approaches are being developed at the MIT AgeLab
James Crabtree, comment editor at Financial Times Magazine, wrote an excellent article on the challenges of supporting America’s aging population, starting with his account of a visit to MIT’s Age Lab and his experience wearing AGNES, or Age Gain Now Empathy System. I highly recommend reading the article and only include minor highlights here.
The article includes several photos including one of Paro, an animatronic ‘therapeutic’ robot baby seal from Japan that was designed to comfort elderly patients suffering from dementia. As seen in the video below, Paro responds to touch and sound.
Posted in Assistive Technologies, Design, Market Research | Tags: agelab, agnes, mit, paro, research, seal | 
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