have many furry companions to keep them company: dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, and a couple of robotic white baby seals. Residents and staff call one of the seals Sarah, but to its manufacturers and ...

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 ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--In a lab tightly packed with models of therapy robots, a harp seal with light pink hair looked up at the person stroking its fluffy head and let out an affectionate ...

I know, I know. The robotic seal is really just a robotic arm dressed in a furry seal outfit, but boy is it cute! And when you see it nail 99% of its shots, it’s a better shooter than Larry Bird ...

Paro is a harp seal stuffed animal robot, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Engineer Takanori Shibata said Paro prototypes are being tested in ...

A furry robotic seal used for therapy in nursing homes has been honoured by the Japanese government. Paro is fitted with sensors beneath its fur and whiskers that allow it to respond to petting. The ...

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 ...

In 2005 she spent time with the pioneering roboticist Takanori Shibata at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and his robot seal pup Paro. Handcrafted ...

With heavy bodies and small flippers, seals aren’t the most graceful movers out of water. But despite appearances, a robot that imitates the way they flop over dry land might be effective in ...

It might be difficult to see at first, but if you squint just right, you can tell the latest animal-inspired robot owes its ungainly waddle to seals. Researchers at Chicago’s DePaul University ...

This is a story about a curious seal, a wayward robot and a gigantic climate change disaster that may be waiting to happen. Scientists tagged a southern elephant seal on the island of Kerguelen ...