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Airicist
30th March 2015, 11:23
Developer - Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?7697)
Home page - robotic.media.mit.edu/portfolio/huggable (http://robotic.media.mit.edu/portfolio/huggable)
Airicist
30th March 2015, 11:27
https://youtu.be/byufjEnVOYs
The Huggable - Sympathetic
Uploaded on Feb 8, 2011
Airicist
30th March 2015, 11:28
https://youtu.be/Z-8_RhkdvoA
Published on Jul 17, 2013
Airicist
30th March 2015, 11:29
https://youtu.be/UaRCCA2rRR0
Huggable Robot Befriends Girl in Hospital
Published on Mar 30, 2015
Meet Huggable Robot—an app-controlled stuffed animal designed by the MIT Media Lab to help young patients who are fighting cancer at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Airicist
14th June 2015, 03:01
https://youtu.be/QwTCmbq9C4o
The Caring Bear
Published on Jun 9, 2015
Beatrice Lipp, a patient at Boston Children’s Hospital, meets Huggable, a robotic teddy bear. The robot’s creators are studying whether it can have therapeutic value for hospitalized children.
Produced by: Emma Cott and Taige Jensen
"A Talking Teddy Bear Practicing in the Pediatric Hospital (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/technology/huggable-robot-therapeutic-value-hospitals.html)"
by The New York Times
June 3, 2015