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13/03/24 07:55 AM IST

Hyodol, an AI social robot to help senior citizens beat loneliness

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  • South Korean company Hyodol has come up with a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to beat loneliness among elders with dementia.
Benefits of Hyodol dolls
  • While the dolls look like cuddly soft toys, their advanced language processing and ability to recognise emotions, talk, and play music can offer some form of engagement to seniors.
  • The robot named Hyodol is an AI care robot that offers customised care for seniors. The robot does this by relying on data collected by living and having conversations with them.
  • “Hyodol helps digitally disadvantaged individuals to live happier and healthier lives through the convenience of digital technology,”.
  • The company works with an Emotional AI system which it claims provides emotional care that feels familiar and realistic to users.
  • The doll can hold full conversations and it comes with a companion app and web monitoring platform for caretakers to monitor remotely.
  • Besides, it comes with safety features that can raise an alert when no movement has been detected for a certain period of time. Essentially, the doll is always watching the user.
  • It also comes with touch interaction, check-ins, a health coach, voice messages, 24-hour voice reminders, music, quizzes, exercise suggestions, and more.
  • Moreover, caregivers with access to the app will be able to send and receive voice messages, make group announcements, and monitor motion detection.
  • The robot also continuously monitors the health condition of its users through health Q&A two times a day.
  • The AI robot can hold conversations owing to the large language model that has been integrated into it.
  • The robots provide convenient and easily managed intelligent services for users and are easy to develop and debug.
  • Besides, the AI robot can be linked to smart home devices and comes with an interface for easy interactions for all users.
Source- Indian Express

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