The Japanese have been using personal robots to monitor people’s health for many years, but now it seems like we might be about to start catching up. At CES 2012 iRobot,the company that makes the Roomba home-cleaning robots, was parading its Ava bot, a three-to-five-foot tall robot with an Apple iPad for a head. There are a number of potential uses for the bot, an obvious one is facilitating video conversations between people in remote locations, but … Read entire article »