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AI Companions

companion devices in homes and care settings without over-claiming. 12 articles.

Care Robot Privacy: Staff Access and Family Deletion Rights

Care robot privacy hinges on three written access questions—recording scope, staff permissions, and family deletion rights. This guide clarifies what must be documen

One Device Per Room: Telling Resident, Family, Carer and Visitor Apart

A companion robot in a care home room is used by four kinds of person a day. Without speaker identity the memory, the permissions and the privacy all collapse into o

Shift Handover From a Companion Robot: What It Should Record and What It Must Not

An AI companion device in care becomes useful the day it produces an auditable handover, and dangerous the day it starts drawing conclusions. Where that line sits in

Care Home Robot Deployment Infrastructure Realities

Why Wi-Fi coverage, charging location and shift handover—not robot specs—decide whether a pilot scales. Read before signing the trial agreement.

Companion Robot Content Pack: From Demo to Shelf

Why wake word customisation, offline content and language support are factory-gated decisions — not software toggles. Read before finalising your spec.

Companion Robot Monitoring Boundaries in Care Settings

How to distinguish wellness companionship from surveillance—using only published policy, compliance scope and procurement guardrails. Read for audit-ready clarity.

Age Grading Companion Robot: Toy or Adult Device?

One printed age label decides your test scope, packaging and retail channel. Here is how buyers should set it before tooling starts.

Companion Robot Care Home Procurement: Staff Time, Not Replacement

A buying guide to companion robot care home deployment: what the hardware can and cannot do, certification scope, and the questions that protect your tender.

Companion robot charging dock: runtime and dock questions

What distributors should ask about always-on device power, standby drain and dock design before committing to a companion robot charging dock programme.

Microphone Kill Switch: What a DPO Wants in Two Pages

A microphone kill switch is a procurement decision, not a spec sheet line. Here is the evidence set a data protection officer will ask you to produce.

Reminder Robot Not Medical: Wording That Passes Review

How to brief, label and document a pill reminder device so it stays wellbeing support, not a medical claim, with the wording that clears import review.

Companion Robot for Seniors: Support, Not Monitoring

Where a companion robot for seniors stops being an activity aid and becomes a monitoring device, and how to write that line into your specs.

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