HUGGABLE ROBOTIC TEDDY BEAR
HUG HUG HUGGABLE
Meet Huggable, a robotic Teddy Bear, who has helped children cope up with stressful treatments at Boston Children's Hospital, USA.
According to a study published recently in the Journal Pediatrics, researchers from MIT Media lab, Boston's Children's Hospital and Northeastern University, Huggable, Robotic Teddy Bears or social robots, were deployed in various pediatric units in the Boston Children's Hospital with the objective of helping ailing children.
The children were split into three groups with one involving Huggables, second a tablet based virtual Huggable and the third a plush Teddy Bear.
Results showed that those kids who interacted with Huggables, the Robotic Teddy, experienced more positive emotions and responded better in comparison to the rest of the two groups.
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