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Is this expected? Probably it is, or probably not.

I would prefer this market to open opened end of 2040, but maybe the author of this marker want it to be closed in several days.

@FedericoLG can you please clarify.

@bessarabov You are right. An oversight. Thanks.

Many people older than 80 live independently, especially in the majority world. For example, my grandmother was living alone on her farm until she turned like, 92 or 93, with no assistance that I know of (i.e. no live-in nurse; she had help with the actual farming). Can you be more specific about what tasks the robot would perform, as if my grandmither had happened to have a roomba you could argue that it should resolve as 'yes'.

Here's some ideas of the types of tasks you might want to specify the robot can help with:
- Medical tasks (scheduling appointments, doing basic monitoring like temperature and blood pressure, dispensing medication at appropriate times, reporting stuff to doctors?)
- Activities of daily living: bathing, eating, grooming
- Chores (cooking, cleaning)
- Companionship (e.g. chatbot)
- Safety (alert if they fall / pick them up if they fall / prevent falls)

If this were my market, I might say if there are robots that can do two a decent portion of the tasks in two of the first three categories would be a 'yes' resolution. Perhaps something like that is what you had in mind?

Or something more objective, like, "are robots in common use as home health care aids for the elderly" or "are there robots marketed and sold for this purpose that have sold more than 10,000 units in the USA"?

@Mad All of the aforementioned activities. The caregiver robot should be able to assist like a live-in-nurse.