en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Shanghai International Senior Care, Rehabilitation and Medical Expo (Senior Care Expo) was held from June 4 to June 6 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Haier Smart Health and Care launched three AI companion robots at the expo, covering embodied service robots, household robots, and companion robots, targeting scenarios such as home living, daily care, and health monitoring. At the same time, Haier systematically proposed a solution for the disabled elderly for the first time, aiming to address four major challenges: nursing, bathing, rehabilitation, and mobility.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, by the end of 2025, China's population aged 60 and above had reached 321 million, accounting for 22.86% of the total population; the population aged 65 and above was 223.65 million, an increase of 13.07 million and 3.42 million respectively compared to the previous year. As population aging intensifies, the contradiction between supply and demand in the elderly care and nursing sector is becoming increasingly prominent, and smart technologies represented by robots are seen as an important means to alleviate this pressure.
At the Smart Health and Care Robot Senior Care Station on Ronghua Street in Beijing, over 40 types of intelligent robots have been deployed in community service scenarios for nearly three months. The station features a smart kitchen and dining area, a rehabilitation therapy area, and a "smart chess and card room." A welcome robot guides seniors to various areas, exoskeleton robots assist with rehabilitation training, and a chess-playing robot provides entertainment. Although elderly people are generally willing to try products like the Gomoku robot for leisure and entertainment, most remain cautious about having robots take over daily care.
Several attending experts stated that China is rapidly entering a deeply aging society, and the silver economy has evolved from a livelihood security field into a new engine driving high-quality economic development. The future role of elderly care robots may not be to replace caregivers but to first provide assistance in service processes, such as aiding rehabilitation training and health monitoring, reducing the burden on caregivers in specific daily care scenarios, while enriching seniors' entertainment and social interactions and alleviating loneliness. Although the silver economy has enormous development potential, pain points and contradictions still exist, and affordable, cost-effective services and products for the general elderly population remain scarce. With technological advancements and policy support, the market for smart elderly care products is gradually improving.
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