{"id":239032,"date":"2026-06-16T07:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-robot-is-helping-an-ailing-couple-stay-in-their-home-are-more-to-come-for-an-aging-population"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:03:17","slug":"a-robot-is-helping-an-ailing-couple-stay-in-their-home-are-more-to-come-for-an-aging-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-robot-is-helping-an-ailing-couple-stay-in-their-home-are-more-to-come-for-an-aging-population","title":{"rendered":"A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-is-helping-an-ailing-couple-stay-in-their-home-are-more-to-come-for-an-aging-population2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After outliving Booker T. Bones, their second service dog, Brenda and Brian Marquis still needed help with some of the more difficult parts of daily life.<\/p>\n<p>They found Robbie, a robot that rolls out of a hallway into their living room several times a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to exercise now? Please answer yes or no,\u201d the caregiver robot asks 59-year-old Brian Marquis, who has been living with a traumatic brain injury since a 2012 car crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After outliving Booker T. Bones, their second service dog, Brenda and Brian Marquis still needed help with some of the more difficult parts of daily life. They found Robbie, a robot that rolls out of a hallway into their living room several times a day. \u201cDo you want to exercise now? Please answer yes or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239032","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}