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Paro Robotic Seal |
| a.k.a 8th Generation Personal Robot |
Paro is modeled after a baby harp seal. Paro is active during the daytime, but gets sleepy at night. Paro has five kinds of sensors: tactile, light, audition, temperature, and posture sensors
As well as touch sensors, Paro can also recognize the direction of voice and words such as its name, greetings, and praise with its audio sensor. Paro can learn to behave in a way that the user prefers, and to respond to its new name. By interaction with people, Paro responds as if it is alive, moving, making sounds and showing your preferred behavior.
Paro is an autonomous robot, so it can express its feelings, such as surprise and happiness, voluntarily by blinking its eyes and moving its head and legs. |
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| Retail Price: |
US $5000.00 / JP ¥350000.00 |
| Release Date: |
2004 |
| Species: |
Seal |
| Age Suitability: |
9 Years + |
| Power Supply: |
Unknown |
| Official Website: |
www.paro.jp
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| Features: |
| • Realistic
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• Touch Sensitive
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whiskers, tail, back, face, chin |
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• Sound Sensitive
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voice recognition, direction and amplitude |
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| • Emits Sound
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| • Light Sensitive
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• Movement
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tail, head, eyes, back and legs |
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• Other Sensors
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audition, temperature, and posture sensors |
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| • Connections
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| Analysis by ElectronicPets.org: |
"Paro the seal is one of the most special electronic pets, with one of the highest price tags. The price reflects the fact that many investigations have shown Paro to be the world's most theraputic robot. He is mainly used by health institutions for use with patients.
Paro the seal is developed to interact with human beings and to make them feel emotional attachment. Unlike normal robots, Paro triggers subjective evaluations, evoking psychological impressions such as "cuteness" and comfort. Paro the Seal is designed to provide 3 types of effects: psychological, such as relaxation and motivation, physiological, such as improvement in vital signs, and social effects such as instigating communication among inpatients and caregivers.
Paro has loads of sensors over its body and, being autonomous, reacts depending on it's feelings. Paro will feel angy when you hit it, so will avoid repeating the actions that it made it receive the act. Each Paro really has a unique personality and little features like being able to touch Paro's whiskers to make it shy or cry really add a new dimension of realism.
Each Paro is hand-made so that each Paro has its own individual facial expression. His artificial fur is very hygienic with an anti-bacterial, soil resistant finish, and hair-loss prevention, so that it can be cared for a long time. Paro has an electromagnetic shield, so it can be used by people with a pacemaker. Paro's reliability and durability have been improved through long-term experimentation since 1993.
Paro is very similar to the WowWee Alive Seal in terms of appearance. While the Alive Seal is in no way as advanced autonomicity, to justify an extra 5k for Paro may seem a little difficult."
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| Image 1: Stock footage of 8th Generation Paro Seal |
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| Other Information: |
| • Winner of the 'World's Most Theraputic Robot' - Guinness Book of Records 2002 |
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| Colours/Designs Available: |
• White
• Beige
• Dark Brown
• Dark Gray |
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| Relevant Tags: |
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autonomous | healing | theraputic | seal |
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