CUPERTINO, Calif. | The elderly woman cooed softly and stroked the soft white fur of the creature in her lap, while it raised its head, batted its dark eyes and made a friendly mewing sound in return.

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 ...

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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 ...