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A telling sentence: ""They are costly to create, require supervision to use, and in the end the manpower issue is not solved. We can see things work, but who is going to pay the expense?"

A big part of the problem seems to be that these devices are overdesigned (a pink robot dog that monitors blood sugar, for instance) and they just don't work well enough, yet, to serve any useful purpose.. at least not as robots. I guess you can't just pop a cheery plastic robot head on any old appliance and expect people to react emotionally to it, which, from what I understand, is part of the intended purpose for this market.

Stuffed animals are better, I guess, at least for now.

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