Robot Assistance or Robot Invasion?

If you have an older parent living on their own, would you feel more comfortable if you had a way to monitor them and their living conditions from afar?  Our next guest says she hopes to start testing just such a system soon by installing robot monitors in assisted living centers in the Midlands of South Carolina.
 
Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Jenay Beer, a computer science and social work professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Assistive Robotics and Tech Lab links: Artlab, SmartHome