To provide his argument on whether or not to entrust robots with the elderly, Sharkey uses examples of robots like this, Secom, an automatic feeder and Sanyo, an electric bathtub robot that can both wash and rinse, and a robot called Mitsubishi Wakamura, which is used for “monitoring, delivering messages, and giving reminders about medicine” (359). In his positive point of view, he explains how each of these robots can help care for the elders in their homes, but like with kids, they would be left without human contact which is what all humans need. In their case, their contact comes from “caregivers and people performing day-to-day tasks” (359). To them and to kids, robots are like toys. This kind of technology can provide great things for
