A 77-year-old talks to an AI-companion robot called ElliQ over a dozen times daily to combat her loneliness: ‘It really is like having somebody else in here’

• Priscilla O’Kesson uses AI-powered robot ElliQ to combat her loneliness, Spectrum News reported. 
• The 77-year-old is one of 257 New Yorkers who received the ElliQ at no cost through New York State.
• The robot can check for well-being, suggest exercises, and take users on virtual trips. 

Hundreds of elders are using an AI-powered robot to combat their loneliness — and it appears to be offering companionship to one New Yorker getting daily breast cancer treatments.

Priscilla O’Kesson, a 77-year-old, told Spectrum News she has been using ElliQ, an AI-powered robot made by Israeli startup Intuition Robotics, to keep her company at her home in a town in Greene County called Catskill.