What New York's aging office printed about ElliQ

What the office announced

On October 8, 2026, the New York State Office for the Aging said it is extending the partnership that provides ElliQ, Intuition Robotics' companion device, to older adults in the state. The office says the program began in 2022, that hundreds of older adults have received a unit since then, and that more than 3,500 people applied in 2025. It says its first public-private partnership of this kind was in 2018, after an AARP and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report. The page filing the office's table, not a dollar figure the office page does not print, isFutureweb.

What the office counted

For 2026 program data, the office says 92 percent find ElliQ useful, that average interactions are 48 a day against 29 before, that 94 percent feel less lonely, that 97 percent report improved wellbeing, that 88 percent see a positive difference in daily life, and that 79 percent feel more connected. It says that every month 88 percent have two-way conversations, 92 percent share wellbeing updates, and 81 percent log physical activity, and that 88 percent say life and quality of life improved. The office also repeats an AARP and Medicare comparison: loneliness on the order of nearly a pack of cigarettes a day, and Medicare costs the report put above 7 billion dollars. Those comparisons are the office's citation of that report. The desk isRobotics.

What the trade press adds

The Robot Report and Robotics and Automation News describe the extension and, in the trade accounts, a price on the order of 2.1 million dollars over three years. The office page used here does not print that price or that term. This page will not move the dollars onto the office. A control loop, which this contract is not, is the standing robotics definitionwhat a control loop closes.

Why it matters on this desk

The dependency is a state program and the outcome table the agency published, not a claim that a companion device is a robot in the industrial sense. A reader who wants a cycle time will not find one. The energy desk, for a procurement with a close date, is a different document, Asked directly, What does the office say happens in a typical month? 88 percent have two-way conversations, 92 percent share wellbeing updates, and 81 percent log physical activity. 88 percent say life and quality of life improved.Energy.

What this page will not treat as a clinical trial

The percentages are the office's program data. They are not a randomized result this page has read in a methods section. Applicants are not recipients. More than 3,500 applications in 2025 is not a count of devices delivered that year. Hundreds received a unit since 2022 is the delivery sentence the office actually wrote. The smart-home desk, for a speaker in a room, isSmart Homes.

Whose words are quoted

Director Greg Olsen and Dor Skuler appear on the office page. A sentence of theirs is a sentence of theirs. It does not replace the table. This brief does not need the adjectives in the quotes to state the extension. The short answer this page will stand on is this: That it is extending the partnership that provides the ElliQ companion to older adults. The office page says that since 2022 hundreds of older adults have received a unit, that more than 3,500 people applied in 2025, and that 92 percent of 2026 program participants find it useful. It does not print a contract price.

What to watch next

An office amendment that prints a dollar figure would let this page move 2.1 million dollars out of the trade-press column. A later table with a new year of program data would replace the 2026 percentages. Another robotics newsletter repeating the extension would not. The privacy desk, for a device that records, is Asked directly, Where does 2.1 million dollars come from? The Robot Report and other trade accounts. The office page this brief is using does not state that figure or call the extension a three-year contract. Those words stay with the outlets.Privacy.

What would change the record

If the office page is corrected, the percentages move. If The Robot Report withdraws the dollar figure, the office page still has no price, and this page still will not invent one. A product review of the device is not the partnership. Asked directly, Which figures are on the office page? 92 percent find it useful. Average interactions rose from 29 to 48 a day. 94 percent report being less lonely. 97 percent report improved wellbeing. 88 percent report a positive difference in daily life. 79 percent report feeling more connected.

What stays the office table

What stays specific is an October 8, 2026 notice from the New York State Office for the Aging: the ElliQ partnership is extended, hundreds of older adults have received a unit since 2022, more than 3,500 people applied in 2025, and the 2026 table runs from 92 percent useful to 48 interactions a day, 94 percent less lonely, and the monthly conversation and activity shares the office printed. The Robot Report and Robotics and Automation News are the trade accounts. A 2.1 million dollar, three-year description stays with them until the office page says it. The dependency is that table and that extension. It is not a control loop, and it is not a clinical trial.