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The soft side of robots: elderly care

Name: The soft side of robots: elderly care
Uploaded: 2016-05-05T15:19:46.457Z
Duration: 14 min 10 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Kana Inagaki on the ethics of machines looking after older people

Japan is looking into robotic solutions to look after its ageing population. The FT’s Kana Inagaki explores the emotional and physical care being provided, and asks whether it is ethical for machines to look after older people.

May 5, 2016

Produced by Nalini Sivathasan. Filmed by Tom Griggs. Graphics by Russell Birkett. Edited by Richard Topping. Additional production by Mitsuko Matsutani and Nobuko Juji.