According to the statistics, there are about 200 million elderly in China, rightly so Chinese Academy of Sciences decided to develop robots that could help elderly.

Developed by Chinese Academy of Sciences, HuiHui robot is designed to help elderly so we might see it in nursing homes, hospitals or even in homes someday. As for HuiHui, this robot is 170cm tall, and it comes with omnidirectional base with two arms and each arm comes with hand with five fingers. Thanks to these arms, HuiHui robot can easily fetch objects such as glass of water or medicine. In addition, this robot can play Go!, checkers, produce music and dance. In order to make usage of this robot as simple as possible, you can issue orders to it by using voice commands. We have to mention that this robot is using laser range finder located on the front to navigate through so he won't get stuck in your room.

HuiHui is pretty neat, but so far, we don't have any information about its release date or pricing, we can probably assume that HuiHui won't come cheap, even so, will it beat that of an actual human being carer?

[via Ubergizmo]