Tens of thousands of older adults in New York are getting all the benefits of a furry friend – without the responsibility – thanks to a program that gives animatronic pets to seniors. The idea for the ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A Sisters nonprofit, Romeo's Joy , is bringing love and companionship to seniors with disabilities in an unusual way - through animatronic pets. They provide them to seniors with ...

Hasbro, a multinational toy company based in Pawtucket, R.I., joined forces with researchers from Providence, R.I.-based Brown University to design robotic pets for senior citizens, the university ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is expanding a program that gives robot animals to New Yorkers. Now, more senior New Yorkers will get animatronic pets to help ...

The Chemung County resident was skeptical. He'd heard good things about the New York state Office for the Aging's Animatronic Pets Program, but wasn't sure how his wife, whose cognitive decline was ...

New York’s senior citizens are being given “robot pets” — animatronic stuffed animals — as part of an ongoing effort to combat what U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called an “epidemic of ...

STATEWIDE — NEW YORK STATE will be delivering another 4,725 “animatronic pets” and reconfigured games to older adults through the state’s aging network, the state Office for the Aging recently ...