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Robots move into Hong Kong care homes, cleaning up, playing mahjong with residents
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The staff of a Hong Kong care home for the elderly went on a hunt the day their four robots went missing.
Usually used for video chats and playing music, they were tracked down to the bedside of some residents.
“It turned out the residents had ‘summoned’ them to play mahjong,” said Lim Long-hei, founder and chief executive officer of Robocore, the Hong Kong distributor of Israeli-made Temi robots.
Although the squat 100cm machines were not programmed to play games, the residents had found a way to download mahjong onto them.
The home ended up buying 10 more robots to not only help with repetitive tasks, but also entertain residents, he said.
Oscar joined the South China Morning Post in 2022. He started his career as a TV news anchor/reporter trainee and has worked for different news outlets including ATV, Ming Pao and Apple Daily.
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