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"GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GCKO) announced today that they have resumed their in home personal companion robot trials for elder care after pausing during the Holidays. GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile Service Robot (MSR) industry revolutionizing their development and usage with "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™." "Practical, cost effective mobile robot solutions have been our primary goal for over twelve years. We are very pleased to resume our in home trials of this new assistive care home appliance, the CareBot™. It is a customizable personal companion robot with telepresence capabilities. During the coming months we expect to continue to confirm important care giving benefits for the elderly and their family's members. Our long held belief is that personal companion mobile robots, like the CareBot, can help tens of thousands of families take better care of their loved ones while saving significant monies is becoming a reality," remarked Martin Spencer, President/CEO, GeckoSystems. "We are pleased to report that all subsystems and systems tested to date in these home trials have functioned as well, if not better than, expected," reflected Mark Peele, Vice President, R&D. While personal robots cannot reliably sense and respond to human emotions, there are many different means available to the end user. The CareBot's persona can be easily customized as to voice tonality, cadence, pitch, breathiness, volume, choice of words, etc. Further, the words and/or phrases chosen in response to anticipated questions to the CareBot can be colloquial in the word choice and approximate the native dialect using various user settings in the software and/or hardware. With the foregoing capabilities there is now a new type of surrogate companion, not only for the elderly, but also other family members such as children and/or the chronically ill. "