You might love your pet—but have you ever thought to yourself that your furbaby is a bit too high maintenance in between walking and feeding it all the time? Well, great news: there's a robotic ...

Pets bring so much joy to our lives. It’s hard to replicate in robotic pets, but companies keep trying. For those who are allergic or kids training for a real dog, robotic dogs have been on the market ...

When you witness the bond between a pet owner and their animal, it's hard not to think that certain species were created to be a companion of humans. These relationships have existed for hundreds of ...

Katie Engelhart, in her article on robotic aids for homebound elderly people, describes how petlike robots, which communicate with their owners and are designed to get to know them using machine ...

Rowan Hooper’s musings on future robot pets brought to mind two things. The first was the Furby, an electronic “pet” developed in the late 90s. It could respond to a variety of inputs with changes to ...

Doggy wellness? Not so far-fetched. Pet parents are saying heal in a brand new way thanks to new tech and wellness innovations that treat Fido more like a human. “I want my dog to not only live long, ...

I have a cat for a pet. My present companion is the fourth feline to occupy my home in the last fifty years. Source: Arthur Dobrin Having a pet is strange to most of my friends in rural Kenya. For ...

Imagine that you could order up a robotic boyfriend or girlfriend. Would you do it? According to Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor who studies the social impacts of science and technology, more people ...