It’s not hard to convince people to want to hang out with a robot dolphin instead of the real thing.

What could be cooler than swimming with a dolphin? Perhaps swimming with a dolphin’s cruelty-free animatronic doppelgänger? American engineering company Edge Innovations is hoping that for most ...

Darting around the pool as a group of swimmers stands in the shallow end, the dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops and perform acrobatics at theme parks. "When I first saw the dolphin ...

The robots are also cost effective. While the initial expense is higher than simply capturing a wild dolphin, the overall upkeep of the animatronic is about 30 percent less expensive in the long run.