When PARO met Geoff
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Journalist Geoff Watts has been contemplating old age in the care of robots. He met PARO at the London offices of the Japan Foundation, accompanied its inventor, Takanori Shibata, an engineer at the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Shibata categorises PARO’s benefits under three headings: psychological (it relieves depression, anxiety and loneliness), physiological (it reduces stress and helps to motivate people undergoing rehabilitation) and social.
Read more about PARO and Geoff's meetings with other social care robots: mosaicscience.com/story/robot-carers
Camera: Ellie Pinney
Editor: Barry J Gibb
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24 Mar 2017
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