Robotic Grandchildren Cure Loneliness in Seniors

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Every day in South Korea, about ten elderly people commit suicide. Seniors make up about a fifth of the country’s population, and one in three live alone. The country’s rapid economic transformation has meant that fewer and fewer of them are part of multi-generational households. The South Korean government has turned to technology companies to help solve the crisis. And so it came to pass that grandchildren were born who never age, respond to t…