{"id":170005,"date":"2023-08-19T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T06:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-77-year-old-talks-to-an-ai-companion-robot-called-elliq-over-a-dozen-times-daily-to-combat-her-loneliness-it-really-is-like-having-somebody-else-in-here"},"modified":"2023-08-19T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T06:23:38","slug":"a-77-year-old-talks-to-an-ai-companion-robot-called-elliq-over-a-dozen-times-daily-to-combat-her-loneliness-it-really-is-like-having-somebody-else-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-77-year-old-talks-to-an-ai-companion-robot-called-elliq-over-a-dozen-times-daily-to-combat-her-loneliness-it-really-is-like-having-somebody-else-in-here","title":{"rendered":"A 77-year-old talks to an AI-companion robot called ElliQ over a dozen times daily to combat her loneliness: \u2018It really is like having somebody else in here\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-77-year-old-talks-to-an-ai-companion-robot-called-elliq-over-a-dozen-times-daily-to-combat-her-loneliness-it-really-is-like-having-somebody-else-in-here.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of elders are using an AI-powered robot to combat their loneliness \u2014 and it appears to be offering companionship to one New Yorker getting daily breast cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla O\u2019Kesson, a 77-year-old, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2023\/08\/16\/report--ai-companion-robots-reducing-senior-isolation#\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\" nofollow\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"40\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2023\/08\/16\/report--ai-companion-robots-reducing-senior-isolation#\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"c43a9504-536b-4b72-b753-413365d89eff\" data-uri=\"17be27b3827f877340aa50a3dc302520\">told Spectrum News<\/a> she has been using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-york-state-companion-robots-800-seniors-combat-loneliness-2022-5\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"40\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-york-state-companion-robots-800-seniors-combat-loneliness-2022-5\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"1\" mrfobservableid=\"33218940-1da7-43ac-acc5-3b08434796a9\" data-uri=\"35ff2a649eb4ec60e205776ffb8fd6c5\">ElliQ<\/a>, an AI-powered robot made by Israeli startup Intuition Robotics, to keep her company at her home in a town in Greene County called Catskill.<\/p>\n<p>The AI-robot, designed to help older adults age on their own, uses voice commands and on-screen instructions to talk to and interact with users in real-time. ElliQ can conduct daily check-ins, act as a personal trainer, play games to stimulate the brain, and track their wellness goals, according to the robotics company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of elders are using an AI-powered robot to combat their loneliness \u2014 and it appears to be offering companionship to one New Yorker getting daily breast cancer treatments. Priscilla O\u2019Kesson, a 77-year-old, told Spectrum News she has been using ElliQ, an AI-powered robot made by Israeli startup Intuition Robotics, to keep her company at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}