“When I first saw the dolphin, I thought it could be real,” said a woman who swam with the remote-controlled creature. Edge Innovations, a U.S. engineering company with an animatronic and ...

HAYWARD, California: 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.

CEC Entertainment Earlier this year, Chuck E. Cheese announced that it would phase out the animatronic characters that have been delighting kids since the late ’70s at all but five of its 400 U ...