Singapore studies robots capable of healing

In the recent Singapore National Day message, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong confirmed that the Lion Island nation is undergoing a rapid change.

He notes that artificial intelligence will replace skilled occupations. An example of this claim is a robot called 'Huggler', which is being studied and developed in Singapore by scientists in Singapore.

According to the researchers, the Huggler robot , which looks like a monkey, will be used to help older people reduce their risk of depression and can diagnose some of the elderly psychiatric symptoms such as dementia.

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The team claims Huggler can help reduce the current heavy workload of doctors, nurses and home care workers. Dr Tan Yeow Kee of the Infocomm Research Institute said: 'To let Huggler robot stay with the elderly, nurses and caregivers can do other important jobs, even rest ". .

Huggler is made up of many parts, with a microphone system installed at the top and upper body as well as a speaker and smartphone system inside.

According to Singaporean scientists, industrial robots like Huggler can soon perform the highly skilled work of technicians, computer programmers and engineers. It can help save costs for companies while increasing efficiency by up to 40%.

However, researchers also believe that robots will never be able to replace humans, but only help perform difficult and dangerous jobs.

Therefore, when robots become more and more popular, people will only have to perform higher demanding tasks, such as monitoring or decision making.