PARO is an animatronic baby seal companion robot designed by some very clever people with one simple purpose in mind - to make you love him. From everything we've seen, he's exceptionally talented ...

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These furry social robots may help ease some of our pandemic pain. The researchers were investigating what effect a session with Paro would have on the mood and pain levels of participants ...

‘We know that pet therapy helps physically, psychologically and socially, and Paro does the same thing ... a former head of the Robotic Industries Association of the United States.

Designed to resemble a cute baby harp seal, Paro is an early entry in a new wave of interactive or “socially assistive” robots that university researchers and tech companies are developing for ...

It's wonderful." Paro is a soft, fuzzy robot, built to look and sound like a baby seal. It's also a $6,000 machine, classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Class II medical device.

Meet Lucy and Ricky, a pair of therapeutic robotic seals that have been helping patients at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in West Philly. The Paro robots, as they’re known, were deployed as part of ...

Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Kāhala Nui’s Hi‘olani Care Center has announced that they are introducing Paro the Robotic Seal. The seal is ...

PARO also imitates the voice of a real baby harp seal." All of this puts PARO high in the running for "most adorable robot of all time." In the show, we see two PAROs owned by Arnold and Rachel's ...

Paro, a robotic baby harp seal introduced to the United States by Japanese researchers in 2009, has raised questions about the role of robotic devices in long-term care. At the time of Paro’s ...

Watch Japanese nursing-home residents interact with Paro, a baby seal pet-therapy robot. Five years ago, a Japanese robot manufacturer introduced Paro to the world. Built to resemble a baby harp ...

Paro the robotic seal — can help calm and comfort elderly individuals afflicted with dementia. The study observed 920 instances where Paro provided some type of therapeutic effect for dementia ...