A care home has introduced robotic dogs and cats to tackle loneliness among its residents. Stoneham Grove Care Home in ...

Sometimes, there’s nothing more soothing than the loving presence of a loving pet. A cat nuzzling against your leg or a dog ...

In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the ...

Robin is a therapeutic robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals providing emotional support.

In a lab tightly packed with models of therapy robots, a harp seal with light pink hair looked up at the person stroking its ...

A new “dog” is changing how a dog food factory in Crete does maintenance. Signs around the Nestlé Purina Petcare factory tell employees to watch out for “Spot,” who often walks through the site.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. He can sit, stay and even shake – just like ...