Should you buy your grandma a robot?
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:45.4 | This pandemic has made it harder for everyone to spend time with friends and family. |
| 0:50.9 | And that solitude can have real health consequences, particularly for groups that are |
| 0:55.9 | vulnerable, like the elderly, or those who live alone. But what if there was a technology, |
| 1:01.2 | say, a robot that could keep grandma company? Would you buy it? Sigal Samuel tried to answer that |
| 1:07.7 | question. She's a staff writer at Vox and the host of the Future Perfect podcast. Sigal, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. So right off the bat, this seems |
| 1:15.5 | like a very futuristic, almost tech utopian idea, you know, robots keeping us company in our old age. |
| 1:22.9 | But like this actually exists, right? Can you give us a sense of what this looks like in just |
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