on Dec 6th, 2006Pill Pets Reminds You to Take Your Medications
Meet your future companion, the pill pet. This furry friend is designed to dispense your daily medications with a purrrfect mix of play and emotion. MIT’s AgeLab is working this idea in order to make the task, and sometimes complicated process, of taking pills easier for senior citizens.
Just asking: Is it a he or a she? We’d just like to name it accordingly!
Maintaining the proper regimen of diet and medications are a challenge for most people. Older adults take more pills than other age groups. AgeLab researchers, in partnership with colleagues in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Rhode Island School of Design, have developed an Electronic Pill Pet that uses play and emotion to remind older adults to take their medications. Researchers, with the support of EDS, are examining the role of toys, pets and play in older adult health.
Pill reminders from robot pets
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