This is Paro, one of the world’s most successful therapeutic robots--popular to the extent that some refer to it as “Japan’s pride.” “I came up with the idea for a pet robot because I ...

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If you live with cats or dogs who regularly leave a flurry of fur in their wake, a robot vacuum can take on some of the legwork to minimize how often you need to manually clean. We spoke with two ...

While the study is preliminary, it opens up intriguing possibilities for the future of human-robot interaction, particularly in therapeutic settings. The robot, developed by Yuga Adachi and ...

The Paro Therapeutic Robot, a robotic seal, offers another example. Designed to provide comfort and therapy for seniors with cognitive disorders, it responds to touch and sound and has been shown to ...

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have designed an AI-enabled robot that can perform a Waltz simply by mirroring the moves of its human partner. As far as we can tell ...