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China has more than 230 million senior citizens. To keep them company, it's encouraging nursing homes to buy companionship robots. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu Long Shan Nursing Home in Chongqing is one of a few dozen early testing sites for caregiving robots in China. It’s been experimenting with them since August 2016. As fewer Chinese are able to care for their aging parents, the number of retirement homes nationwide is mushrooming. And since China can’t rely on the one-child generation to care for its large and growing elderly population, it needs another solution. So the government has started encouraging private business to invest in AI. Read more: https://goo.gl/TNreyy FOLLOW QUARTZ: Facebook: https://goo.gl/DsmLvx Twitter: https://goo.gl/rY7pSX This video is part of Machines With Brains, a series about what it means to be human in a world increasingly filled with robots. Check out the rest of our videos: https://goo.gl/A8gZvx Quartz is a digitally native news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at https://qz.com/ to read more.