Meet MARCo-Lite, the latest Mental Health Assisting Robot Companion
https://youtu.be/418OpIwaV0g?si=B8hZK32SlkxkFldl Increasingly, people worldwide are grappling with mental health problems. While traditional therapeutic interventions can help, they are often beyond the reach or means of many. This discrepancy in mental health resources has catalyzed the conception of alternative support mechanisms, such as robotic buddies like MARCo-Lite. Created by MARCo Technologies LLC, these robots harness the key tenets of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Behavioral Activation (BA) to give emotional succor and companionship to those in distress. The Mental-Health Assisting Robot Companion (MARCo), illustrates the strides in robotics and artificial intelligence relevant to the field of mental health- but how affordable…
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