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And if that means that, you know, a company in Japan that I met called Z-Works, they try to do all these innovations around these elderly people to help them.

Make in your mattress a little bit of a sensitivity pad.

And in the middle of the night, you go to the toilet and you don't come back within 15 minutes.

The alarm goes off.

And this doesn't seem like world-shocking kind of revolutions, but it does mean that people can stay independent longer.

They can stay... Yeah, and they don't feel that old.

Let's put it like that.

I think...

More and more people, I mean, becoming 100 years old is actually not that strange anymore, is it?

And getting to that particular age, many of these people may have lost their partner if they had a partner.

Yeah, or live far away from their, from other family.

I mean, especially in the US, I mean, after high school, you probably move away from where you lived, where you grew up.

Yeah, you go to a college somewhere in upstate New York, you go to work in California, and people are not close anymore.

That truly is a loneliness epidemic.

So what can we do?

And I think, and I love the work that is happening around sort of companion robots, yeah?

Sort of, why?

Because I always thought that people would treat a robot like a piece of metal mechanics, you know?

Right.

Turns out.