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 robot on ...

Robotics have long resided in the imaginings of humans. From the proto-robotic conception of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster to current forays into Artificial Intelligence, robotics both conceptually and ...

Watch Japanese nursing-home residents interact with Paro, a baby seal pet-therapy robot. Fed's Powell on Rate Cut: 'Risks to Inflation Are Tilted to the Upside' ...

When nursing professor and nurse scientist Pamela Cacchione first saw Paro robotic seals at a conference, she thought they were “ridiculous.” But after interacting with them, she realized they could ...

To explore the effectiveness of companion robots with dementia patients, Japanese manufacturing giant AIST developed an advanced interactive robot known as “ Paro ”. The Paro robot is designed to ...