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EduPla and Medibear Robots in hospitals help children by reducing anxiety, providing companionship, and assisting with treatment compliance, acting as "buddies" that make the environment less intimidating. These robots are particularly beneficial for children facing long-term stays, painful procedures, or social isolation American Hospital Association +3Key ways robots support pediatric patients include:

• Emotional Support and Distraction: EduPal Robots AI-powered, interactive robot engage children in conversation, tell jokes, play games, and dance to distract them from pain and fear.
• Medical Procedure Preparation: Robots help explain complex or scary procedures in simple ways. For example, EduPal or MediBear robot can demonstrate an IV insertion on itself (we have a needle injection learning tool for nurses to demonstrate procedures on the robot to show children before a nurse performs it on the child, helping them know what to expect.
• EduPal VR Virtual "Field Trips": is a telepresence robot feature that enables hospital-bound children to remotely visit places like space and planets, aquariums, science centers, or museums, providing a much-needed break from the hospital room.
• Asthma and Respiratory Care: EduPal and MediBear Robots guide patients through breathing exercises and assist with asthma action plans.
• Infection Prevention and Anxiety Relief: During Covid EduPal greeted children entering CHOC Hospital, EduPal was able to remember faces and next time the child entered he would greet them by name " Joey good to see you again," this was valuable for Isolated Patients: During periods of restricted visitation (such as COVID-19), EduPal robots help children feel less isolated by connecting them with family members or acting as a peer-like companion (integrated Chat & Conferencing makes it fun). 
• Social Interaction learning and emotion learning: EduPal was designed with emotion recognition to help kids learn self-awareness, especially kids with autism and ADHD. 
• Reducing Anxiety in High-Stress Areas: EduPal Robots can be e used in emergency departments and ICUs to provide comfort when human staff are busy or unavailable. EduPal was designed 3 years with the Chairman of Pain Management at Scripps to help kids express pain and learn how to relax and help pain relief.