Toyota Research Institute developing robots to assist the elderly at home

Toyota Research Institute is teaching robots to help the elderly perform home tasks. — AFP Relaxnews

As many countries across the world are experiencing surges in the proportion of elderly persons in their populations, ensuring that all people are properly attended to becomes increasingly difficult. To address this challenge, Toyota's Research Institute announced late last week that an at-home assistant robot is in development, one that has the capacity to continuously learn how to do new tasks in all types of homes.

With the primary goal to assist the increasing ratio of older persons across the world, Toyota recently announced that their Research Institute is developing an at-home robot assistant whose intelligence continuously evolves.