Side by side, they look like identical twins. In fact, AI robot Nadine is a humanoid copy of her creator, Nadia. Nadia was inspired to create Nadine by her personal experience of the loneliness elderly people can face in care homes. Swiss robotician Professor Nadia Thalmann was working in Singapore when her elderly mum moved to a home back in Switzerland . Nadia could only fly back to see her every two months, but says: “Even so, staff there said I was one of the people who visited their loved