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Japanese experiment with therapy robots
Machines could help lower medical costs
by Yuri Kageyama
OHBU, Japan (AP) -- The elderly patients suffer from severe dementia, but their faces light up when they see the dog-shaped robot, swaddled in soft clothing, waddle around the hospital floor. Some clap; others break into feeble smiles. Urged by nurses, a few cautiously reach out and touch it.
"It's cute," one female patient cries out.
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Machines could help lower medical costs
by Yuri Kageyama
OHBU, Japan (AP) -- The elderly patients suffer from severe dementia, but their faces light up when they see the dog-shaped robot, swaddled in soft clothing, waddle around the hospital floor. Some clap; others break into feeble smiles. Urged by nurses, a few cautiously reach out and touch it.
"It's cute," one female patient cries out.
(more...)