Pictured is Dr. Takanori Shibata with his robot seal named Pero.
Japan is currently working on several different types of robots:
humanoid robots, home robot, pet robot, welfare robot, but Dr. Shibata
has chosen the latter, welfare robots, for his project. The seal robot
used to prevent dementia an
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