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Evening Standard
Technology
Alan Martin

Canadian engineers program ‘companion’ robot to help find missing items

Dementia sufferers could in the future receive help from robots with “episodic memory”, thanks to research from Canada’s University of Waterloo.

Engineers have developed a system whereby robots can be trained to remember specific items — keys, pills or a phone, for example — and recall where they were last seen, on demand.

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