Meet Fribo, a robot built for lonely young people

The number of people living alone is on the rise in the US and other developed nations, and it’s definitely not a good thing. Loneliness and isolation are bad for your health, physically and mentally, so it’s in societies’ interests to think about how we can bring people together. Many blame technology for this fragmentation, but could it also help?
Researchers from Korea think so, and they have developed a prototype robot named Fribo that encourages young people to text and c