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Robots don’t replace human care; they extend it

Routine Care Robots don’t replace human care; they extend it Anabelle Johnston January 31, 2022 share Image: Detail from Bandai Tamagotchi (1997) (2021) by Lilly Lulay . Photo by Thomas Bruns. Courtesy the artist and Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin. http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Routine-Care.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. “I believed it was my duty to save Josie, to make her well.” So states Klara, the robot narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun . In the future world it depicts, “artificial friends” like Klara can be purchased to administer physi

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