Could robots one day play an important role in enabling the world’s ageing population to live safely and independently in their own homes?

The Anchor Society and Bristol Robotics Laboratory at University of the West of England are delighted to announce the opening of the Anchor Robotics Assisted Living Facility by Anchor President Canon Dr John Savage CBE on Wednesday 9 September 2015.

Growing older is not an option, goes the saying. And of course more and more of us are living to what my mum called a “ripe old age”.

That’s fantastic news. But what is increasingly clear is that society has been incredibly slow to gear up for the challenges as well as the opportunities that longevity brings. It’s been the “elephant in the room” for successive governments: issues with such huge implications for our public services (and public purse) that we haven’t grasped the nettle.

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The construction of the Anchor Robotics Laboratory is now underway.  The installation when complete will be a ‘living lab’ nestled within the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.  This living lab will contain realistic rooms which can be monitored to show how robots would interact in real home environments.

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