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welcome to the good news ride home for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

A pet robot that's helping cure COVID-19 loneliness.

If you thought the fireworks going off every night in your town was bad,

let me tell you about a city in France that has set them off every single

day for 150 years. Jurassic Park was number one in the U.S. box offices this past weekend,

like the original Jurassic Park from 1993. And are you ready to go to Flavortown, Ohio? Here are some of the cool things

from the news today. The lockdown has been a lonely time for just about everyone, but especially

for older people who are among the most vulnerable, and many of whom live in nursing homes who

have had to close to all visitors for months. To help resolve some of the loneliness many seniors

are experiencing, some facilities have turned to robots for help, specifically a stuffed seal

robot that was built as a kind of pet therapy. Quoting wired,

Perro looks more like a lux toy than a health care tool. Modelled after a baby harp seal and

deliberately scaled to the weight of a human infant, Perot coos and wiggles and blinks its

unnervingly expressive eyes when it's held. But Perra isn't just a $6,000 piece of cute overload.

Underneath its cuddly fur lies sophisticated artificial intelligence designed to comfort people."

While it originally received some criticism over fears that it could encourage bonding with a robot instead of engaging in actual human connection,

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