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Like coffee machines and Roombas, these robot companions -- coupled with cameras and AI algorithms -- could soon become household fixtures for us increasingly memory-impaired humans.
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Phone, house keys, wallet, glasses, car key, earbuds, small change: The jumble of items to be worn, taken off, left on a table, put in a pocket or fumbled from here to there in the course of a busy day can make it easy to misplace something now and then.
Engineers at the University of Waterloo are using robots to locate medicine, phones, glasses, and other missing items for those with dementia.
Researchers say they hope the technology could someday be used by anyone who frequently loses things, not just those with dementia.