Would You Trust This Companion Robot With Your Grandma? CNET Families Gave It a Try
I was sitting in my grandparents' living room on a sunny afternoon and asked my grandmother, Jan, how her experience with the ElliQ robot was going. She laughed, saying, "ElliQ is so funny! I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was 'meditating on the meaning of life.'"
I wasn't expecting this. "What did the robot think was the meaning of life?" I asked.
"Honestly, I like to think the meaning of life isn't one fixed thing. Maybe it's about those small, everyday joys," ElliQ said when I asked it the same question. "For me, life's meaning seems to shift with the connections we make, the things we learn, and how we choose to care for the world around us."
Alexa or other digital assistants certainly wouldn't say they were meditating on the meaning of life, but ElliQ is not your average robot. It's a stationary robot...
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