It is really a joy to have an addition to one's family especially a new born. Working mom's though take off from work for few months to take care of the baby, it gets them to a point where they feel that they are getting more lazy and missing on the outside world.
It becomes more difficult when the mom cannot even leave the baby for a while and do some home work or prepare food or take bath, since you don't know when the baby will cry and may be even start moving to unsafe location. With a new born/toddler who starts to move, every location in your house feels unsafe and you need constant monitoring.
Japan, China and may be many other countries have been researching and have working products of Robot Nannies that take care of the baby and one can monitor the robot and the baby via their video phone or laptop.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3343667/Robot-nannies-threat-to-child-care.html
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/04/family-nanny-ro.php
But is it necessary to solely depend on the robot nanny? Doesn't this break the bonding of baby with the parents? Doesn't the baby start thinking the robot as a human and change the mental state?
With advancing technologies and organizations allowing employees to work from home, wouldn't it be great to have a robot nanny, that can just take care of the baby in your control area, while you are working and doing some other work. This enables the parent to have care for the baby as well as monitor the robot, thus have a greater bonding with the baby and have a very good robot friend for the baby.
Babies should be made to think that these robots are like their daily playing toys which help them while the parents are little away from them (not visually/ but physically). These robot nannies can feed the baby, make baby to sleep or even bath the baby while in the presence of the mom or the dad. This makes the parents feel they are with the baby and also get to work and do other things.
May be we want the robot to carry the baby things while we carry the baby during a walk or outing and not the other-way round as the robot nannies are getting developed.
It becomes more difficult when the mom cannot even leave the baby for a while and do some home work or prepare food or take bath, since you don't know when the baby will cry and may be even start moving to unsafe location. With a new born/toddler who starts to move, every location in your house feels unsafe and you need constant monitoring.
Japan, China and may be many other countries have been researching and have working products of Robot Nannies that take care of the baby and one can monitor the robot and the baby via their video phone or laptop.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3343667/Robot-nannies-threat-to-child-care.html
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/04/family-nanny-ro.php
But is it necessary to solely depend on the robot nanny? Doesn't this break the bonding of baby with the parents? Doesn't the baby start thinking the robot as a human and change the mental state?
With advancing technologies and organizations allowing employees to work from home, wouldn't it be great to have a robot nanny, that can just take care of the baby in your control area, while you are working and doing some other work. This enables the parent to have care for the baby as well as monitor the robot, thus have a greater bonding with the baby and have a very good robot friend for the baby.
Babies should be made to think that these robots are like their daily playing toys which help them while the parents are little away from them (not visually/ but physically). These robot nannies can feed the baby, make baby to sleep or even bath the baby while in the presence of the mom or the dad. This makes the parents feel they are with the baby and also get to work and do other things.
May be we want the robot to carry the baby things while we carry the baby during a walk or outing and not the other-way round as the robot nannies are getting developed.
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