BellaBots bring automation, curiosity and cat faces to Little Falls Care Center

If you’ve walked the halls of the Little Falls Care Center lately and thought you saw a cat delivering lunch, relax — you’re not due for new glasses. That really was a cat-faced robot humming along with someone’s meal balanced neatly on its tray.

In a building where birthdays, bingo and the repetition of daily routines usually set the pace, a pair of animated “cats” rolling down the hallway has become the newest conversation starter. The staff has grown used to the double-takes. The residents? Some wave. Some grin. A few are still deciding what to make of it all.

The care center welcomed four service robots this fall through a state technology grant aimed at giving staff a hand with the never-ending movement of meals, supplies and housekeeping duties. Administrator Daren Rife said they arrived in late September, and it didn’t take long for them to become part of the center’s daily rhythm.

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