Paro

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

PARO is a therapeutic baby harp seal robot, intended to be very cute and to have a calming effect on and elicit emotional responses in patients of hospitals and nursing homes, similar to animal-assisted therapy except using robots.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Paro (robot)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Aaron Biggs, Flickr user ehjayb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.