We celebrate our pets all year, but May is National Pet Month, and Amazon is kicking it off with a day of deals. Plus, with Mother's Day right around the corner, now is the perfect time to give a gift ...

Pet owners who would like to interact remotely with their pets may be interested in a new ball shaped robot pet toy aptly named the Rollbot. Complete with its companion application you can watch and ...

Robot hands are evolving from hard claws to squishy fingers. This breakthrough could transform e-commerce, agriculture, food handling, and other industries. Shaped like an egg, SHRU (pictured above) ...

Sega Toys has a line of robot cats as part of its 'KIMIT Ragdoll' line, which attempts (arguably creepily) to recreate the look of a real cat. This means it has synthetic fur, so you can cuddle and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Keeping floors clean and free of fur is a never-ending chore with pets in the home. Fortunately, we’ve ...

Mita Yun didn’t get into robotics to save the world. The lunar rovers she built as a student at Carnegie Mellon, and the software she developed as an engineer for Google—that stuff was just practice.

Furry like real ones, endearing and incredibly comforting, robot pets are slowly but surely finding their way into homes. These little creatures, with batteries instead of hearts and AI hidden beneath ...