Enter cuddly robots. Probably the most well-known are Golden Pup, a robotic golden retriever toy that cocks its head, barks and wags its tail, and Paro the seal, which might sense contact, mild, sound, temperature, and posture. As robots go they’re decidedly low tech, however they’ll present consolation and leisure to folks with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Now researchers are engaged on rather more subtle robots for folks with cognitive problems—units that leverage AI to converse and play video games—that would change the way forward for dementia care. Learn the total story.

—Cassandra Willyard

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What tech realized from Daedalus

At the moment’s climate-change kraken might have been unleashed by human exercise, however reversing course and taming nature’s rising fury appears past human means, a quest solely legendary heroes may fulfill. 

But the dream of human-powered flight—of rising over the Mediterranean fueled merely by the energy of mortal limbs—was additionally the stuff of myths for hundreds of years. Till 1988.