ROBOT-ENABLED HOME Venture capitalists and governments from Japan HEALTHCARE AIDES to Europe are investing heavily in robotic home care aides, as ABI research predicts that the industry will ‘quadruple in value by 2025.’ These aides run the gamut between tools that help seniors better interact with the world around them (e.g. find someone to run an errand for a small fee) to tools that allow humans to act more like nurse practitioners (the computer is doing the diagnostic work, the human adds a layer of real- world logic onto the whole affair). Credit: http://thenetwork.cisco.com Already, manufacturers sold 4,416 elderly and handicap assistance robots worldwide in 2014 alone. 134