How can you attach a medical robot to a sick child to enhance your mood and observe it?.

Of course, making it in the form of a cute toy, such as a teddy bear.

It was on this path that scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), led by Cynthia Breazeal, a famous expert in the field of personal robots.

They created a toddler Huggable, a blue-green teddy bear that should help cope with the pain and distract from the manipulation of children for a long time. For example, in the departments of oncology or resuscitation.

Now that our smartphones have become so smart that they can talk to us, researchers at MIT have been able to make a smart enough robot that can easily mock the child and improve his mood. The Huggable bear, which was tested by MIT media lab experts and Boston doctors, is successfully coping with these tasks.

Under the cute face lies a smartphone and a network of sensors that react to touching a bear cub. When stimulating the sensors, the robot responds to the child with a greeting. He can support a simple conversation, understands jokes, guesses puzzles.

Scientists say that Huggable seems smarter than some systems with artificial intelligence, and should really appeal to children. Parents can use the computer to type text from another place, and the bear cub will talk to their child, striking with his wits.

During the pilot study, which was held at Boston Children's Hospital, sick children could communicate with the robot bear in their wards.

They pawed his paw, told jokes (the children were told that he did not know any), played simple games (such as I Spy).

The researchers have not yet completed their work in order to draw definitive conclusions about the effect of the robot on the quality of life of young patients in the hospital, but preliminary results inspire. They claim that this is only the first step towards a new high-tech robot that is only being designed. It will take into account all the pros and cons of Huggable medbe. en.

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