A couple months ago, we were excited about robotic chickens; now, Sega Toys announced that they’re coming out with three new robotic animal types for their highly popular Dream Pet series: a ...

NEW YORK — When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying “Please! Please! Can we buy them?” Seeing a fully ...

Once upon a time, toys came to life only in stories like The Nutcracker or Toy Story. Now, reality is quickly catching up to fiction. Last year a pack of robotic dogs pounced onto store shelves, along ...

Cats are not known to be nature’s most loving animals, but Hasbro has created an animatronic cat so lifelike, you might think it actually cares about you. The Companion Pets, part of the Joy For All ...

Honeybees dance to direct hive mates to new food sources. Guppies negotiate leadership with their schoolmates. Flocks of homing pigeons take evasive action when a falcon attacks. Since the dawn of ...

The AI industry hopes robots will unseat the dog someday as man’s best friend, but Fido is safe — for now. Though robot dogs and cats have been around for years, recent advances have made them a ...

DUBLIN — To help ward off some of the isolation and loneliness elderly dementia patients in hospice care have been experiencing during the pandemic, workers at one organization have come up with a ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. When designing tools for use in space, versatility is important. Each pound of material you ...

DUBLIN — To help ward off some of the isolation and loneliness elderly dementia patients in hospice care have been experiencing during the pandemic, workers at one organization have come up with a ...