Smart home gadgets are often designed for folks with decent technical chops. Installing a smart thermostat, syncing a smart speaker with your other electronics, or simply checking in on your Ring ...

We saw no shortage of Amazon Echo copycats at CES. ElliQ is another such device in the mold of Amazon's always-listening speaker, except ElliQ is specifically designed for the elderly. From Intuition ...

The ElliQ companion robot encouraged my mom, who has Parkinson’s disease, to exercise again when little else was working. The ElliQ companion robot encouraged my mom, who has Parkinson’s disease, to ...

ElliQ looks like a Pixar character. It has a lot of built-in intelligence, but it's specifically designed to not look too much like a robot. It's supposed to look friendly and show off its personality ...

A week before the ElliQ robot arrived, a neurologist advised that we needed to rebalance my mom’s life. Her Parkinson’s medication had been losing effectiveness over the past month, leading her to ...

ElliQ’s companion robot is now a much more useful tool for caregivers of the elderly. ElliQ’s companion robot is now a much more useful tool for caregivers of the elderly. writes about tech news, ...

Some seniors in New York are successfully combating their loneliness with an AI-powered companion robot named ElliQ—while others called the “proactive” device a nag and joked about taking an ax to it.

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