(English) They bark. 🗣️ They sleep. 💤 They are robotic! 🤖
“Operation Animal Love” provides veterans in the middle and later stages of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, life-like robotic kittens and puppies as therapy pets.
These robotic pets have been shown to be effective in decreasing stress and agitation, as well as providing the patients with responsibility, caring and structure.
These robotic pets mimic many of the same acts performed by their real-life counterparts like barking, sleeping and wagging their tail.
Special thanks to 12-year-old Grace Hobbs, who used her sewing machine to create Red Cross bandanas for each of the therapy pets as part of her 4-H project.
