Episode 01 · Caregiving
Can a robot replace a caregiver?
The first question everybody asks. The answer is no, and the reason why turns out to be more interesting than the answer.
4 minutes
Prosperous Robotics · Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Edition No. 1
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First visit
One page. Sixty seconds. Then go back to your day.
Today's affirmation
You are not behind. You are in it.
Ready
Sixty seconds
Before you carry on
Four in. Four hold. Four out. Four times.
This is the same box breathing they teach aircrew and medics, and it works for exactly the same reason: it gives a body that has been braced all morning something predictable to follow.
If you are in the middle of something and cannot stop, that is fine. It will be here tomorrow, and the day after. Nobody is keeping score. Stop early any time you want to, and if you feel lightheaded, stop and breathe normally.
One small thing, today
Drink a full glass of water before you do anything else.
Why one
Three good minutes beat thirty planned ones that never happened. Small and repeated is not the consolation prize. It is the mechanism. It is the thing the whole company is built on.
Proposed slate · coming soon
The Caregiver Bot Show
Caregiving, healing, spirituality and how these machines actually work, for anybody who wants to know. One honest question per episode, the kind people are slightly embarrassed to ask out loud. Answered properly first, then answered funny, because both of those are load-bearing.
Episode 02 · Healing
You cannot pour from an empty cup
Burnout, with somebody who has done it at three in the morning rather than read about it.
12 minutes
Episode 03 · Education
What the body remembers
Neuroplasticity, explained the way somebody should have explained it in the hospital. Repetition is not busywork. It is the mechanism.
8 minutes
Episode 04 · Spirituality
Praying in a hospital corridor
Faith, whatever yours is, and what people actually reach for when the news is bad. No sermon, no sales pitch.
14 minutes
Episode 05 · Caregiving
Forty pages, three of them useful
We read a hospital discharge packet out loud so that you do not have to, and mark the parts that matter.
6 minutes
Episode 06 · Robotics
The doorway is one inch too narrow
Why the hardest problem in home robotics is not the robot. It is somebody's actual hallway, built in 1974.
5 minutes
Episode 07 · Healing
Grief that arrives early
The thing nobody warns you about: mourning somebody who is still sitting in the room with you.
15 minutes
Episode 08 · Robotics
How a robot actually learns you
A live look at what joint-level movement data looks like coming off a device. Nothing hidden, nothing prettied up.
7 minutes
Episode 09 · Open floor
Ask ROSE anything
Questions sent in by viewers. Some of them serious. Several of them about the thermostat.
10 minutes
Got a question you want answered on the show? Send it. No question about caregiving has ever been too small, and the ones people apologise for asking are usually the best ones.
Gratitude
Thank you notes we have not sent yet.
When we serve the community, the community serves us back. It does not always happen on schedule, but it happens.
To every person who has ever set an alarm for somebody else's medication: you are the healthcare system. You just never got the badge.Prosperous Robotics
To the therapists who write the home program out by hand because they know the printout is going to get lost. We noticed.Prosperous Robotics
To the spouse doing the transfers, the daughter doing the paperwork and the neighbor doing the driving. Three jobs, one household, no invoice.Prosperous Robotics
To the veterans who let us ask blunt questions about the worst year of their lives, so that the next person's year is better.Prosperous Robotics
To the nurse who stays four minutes past the end of the shift. Those four minutes are the entire profession.Prosperous Robotics
To the clinicians who tell us our idea is wrong. You save us a year every single time you do it.Prosperous Robotics
To whoever invented the grab bar: we would like to buy you something.Prosperous Robotics
To the person reading this at a bedside, on a phone, at an hour that is not reasonable. Go get some water. Come back.Prosperous Robotics
To Rose, an Air Force nurse who then gave 33 years to the VA, and who is the reason any of this has a name.Prosperous Robotics
Add yours. Tell us who has been carrying something for you, and we will put it on the wall.
Today's laugh
Physical therapy homework is the only homework where the dog genuinely cannot eat it.
Come back tomorrow.
Not because we need the traffic. Because a minute of something steady, at the same time each day, is worth more than an hour of good intentions on a Sunday.
- TomorrowA new affirmation, a new small thing, and a new attempt at a joke.
- Each weekA new episode of the Caregiver Bot Show, and a new note on the gratitude wall.
- Always hereThe sixty-second breath. It does not expire and it does not need a login.
Written by people who have sat up at three in the morning with somebody they love.