Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot.

“Luca, how are you?” it asked in a high-pitched voice programmed to sound like a 7-year-old girl. "It’s been awhile.”

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Brazil-Sheehan said they had only met the 4-foot-tall robot with a large screen displaying cartoonlike features once before after they were admitted several days earlier.

“His face lit up," she said about the interaction in June in Worcester, Massachusetts. "It was so special because she remembered him.”

Robin is an artificial intelligence-powered therapeutic robot programmed to act like a little girl as it pr

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