I’m unsure if it’s really the first ‘animal therapy robot,’ but the PARO is almost certainly a seal, which are not only cute, but very delicious. There isn’t much in the way of details ...

Paro Seal The brainchild of engineer Takanori Shibata, Paro is a therapeutic robot seal. The device has proven popular with patients, but raised concerns about using machines for emotional support.

In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the ...

Bucci, a doctoral student in UBC ’ s department of computer science, researches how robots can be used in therapy to help comfort humans, like PARO, a cute seal pup robot that wiggles and blinks ...

An exhibition in Osaka, central Japan, has assembled a hall of fame for Japanese tech products, with hits including Sony's Walkman and Aibo, an original Tranformer toy, and Paro the baby seal ...

It features the da Vinci Surgical Robot, the Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot, the PARO Therapeutic Robot, the CyberKnife, and the TUG. All of these robots have helped the doctors to deal with patients ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Lu May softly scratched Dala, who squealed, turned her head and opened her eyes. May smiled. 'Oh, you're nothing like I expected,' said the 88-year-old resident of Asta ...

Autoethnographic Insights from Equine-Assisted Interventions to Inform Therapeutic Robot Design, Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2025). DOI: 10.1145 ...

BLOOMINGTON — Lu May softly scratched Dala, who squealed, turned her head and opened her eyes. May smiled. “Oh, you’re nothing like I expected,” said the 88-year-old resident of Asta ...