Here Come the Robot Nurses

The pandemic increased the demand and possibility of automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Awakening Health Ltd. (AHL), a joint venture between two robotics companies, SingularityNET(SNET) and Hanson Robotics, introduced Grace, the first medical robot to have a lifelike human appearance. Grace provides acute medical and elder care by engaging patients in therapeutic interactions, cognitive stimulation, and gathering and managing patient data. By the end of 2021, Hanson Robotics hopes to be able to mass produce a robot named Sophia into one of its newest units--Grace--for the global market. What does it mean to take care of another human being?