Richard Naszcyniec
Richard is a Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Home & Robot. He is dedicated to making affordable, truly useful home robots a reality, the first new consumer platform since the smartphone.
23 articles
About 1 in 4 community-dwelling Americans 65 and older are socially isolated. ElliQ can talk, remind and place a family video call. Paro and Joy for All are for...
Most older adults want to keep the home they already have. Later-life independence means choosing how you live, where you live and who helps you. Robots here ar...
Ordinary forgetting sorts by consequence. A missed dose, a skipped meal or a stove left on can force a crisis. Lost keys rarely force a move. A clock, a locked ...
A fall can start a cascade of injury, a weaker recovery, fear and less walking. What you can use today is simple prevention, a rated grab bar, a flat rug and a ...
A catalog of machines you can buy now, sorted by job: clean a cleared floor, hold a medication schedule, call for help after a fall, fill a quiet hour or run th...
Robot integration in your home is not merely about what a robot can do, but how seamlessly it can sustain itself within your home. Smart charging and electrical...
Your new robot moves with grace until it reaches the cabinet, where it stares at the smooth, round brass knob like it’s an unsolvable riddle.
Robots are masters of movement, but clumsy at the art of disappearing. We have designed them to work. We neglected to design a place for them to wait.
To a robot, your garage isn't a storage room; it is a high-stakes obstacle course designed by someone who hates robots.
The kitchen is the high-traffic nexus of the home where human utility meets robotic necessity.
Thresholds can be the silent killers of the automated home. They turn a "set and forget" luxury into a series of manual rescues.
The modern robot is a marvel of engineering, a rolling brain capable of mapping a triplex with the precision of a cartographer. Yet, put that same machine in a ...