A breathing doll is disclosed herein. The breathing doll includes a doll, an actuator, a sound output unit and, in some embodiments, a vibration output unit.

The breathing doll uses visual cues, sound, vibration and touch to inform, teach and model conscious diaphragmatic breathing to children. As such, the breathing doll is used for teaching healthy breathing to children that continues into adulthood, leading to increased health, independence, confidence, relaxation, self-regulation, self-soothing and decreasing stress and anxiety.

Devices, systems, and methods for reproducing or simulating a heartbeat pattern in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In particular aspects, a device is configured to reproduce a tactile, auditory, and/or visual output representing a heartbeat pattern of a loved one. A user may perceive, during operation, the reproduced heartbeat pattern reproduced by the device. For example, the user may touch the device (e.g., may wrap a hand around the device, may pressed the device against any part of the user's body, et.), the device may be activated (e.g., by the user's touch) and may reproduce an output (e.g., tactile, auditory, and/or visual) causing the user to perceive the heartbeat pattern. The heartbeat pattern may be one stored in the device, an external device and provided to the device via a link, or generated by the device dynamically during operation.

A robot includes a first sensor and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to, in response to detecting an occurrence of a predetermined type of event based on an output from the first sensor, update a value of a parameter indicating a degree of pseudo-drowsiness of the robot with a value corresponding to the type of the event having occurred, and switch a state of the robot between a pseudo-sleep state and a pseudo-awake state based on the updated value of the parameter.

A kit for creating and healing a simulated wound includes a fabric patch that can be saturated with a liquid to become translucent. The patch includes an image of a simulated wound, such as a cut, scratch, or abrasion. Water is applied to a person's skin. The patch is applied to the wetted skin and is saturated by the water, causing the fabric forming the patch to become translucent so that the color of the user's skin is at least partially visible through the patch. This creates the illusion that the simulated wound image is an actual injury. The kit also includes a simulated bandage. The bandage has a gripping portion, such as a patch of hook materials from a hook-and-loop fastener, on its bottom surface. When the gripping portion of the bandage is contacted with the patch, the gripping portion engages with the fabric so that when the bandage is pulled away from the skin, the patch and the simulated wound are also pulled away from the skin, creating the illusion that the wound has been healed.