They are not just for fun—robot pets have significant roles in healthcare, education, and even offer an alternative to traditional pets. Remember Aibo, Sony's robotic dog of the late 90s?

Tech companies love rolling a robot out onstage. These systems serve as shorthand for consumer electronics brands branching ...

On occasion we get an Amazon Astro or Sony Aibo that actually hit the market in some form. More often than not, however, the robots only exist in the land of press conferences. Samsung’s Ballie ...

As long as there have been robots, there have been attempts to create robot pets. A dog you don't need to feed, walk, or pick up after? Sign us up!

Sony also unveiled the first consumer robot to the mass market in 1999: the beloved Aibo dog. There’s been a tendency to overhype the role and value of robots in Asian societies, especially in ...

Unlike other robot pets, such as Sony's Aibo dog, the Moflin hasn't been designed to chase balls or be an active pet — rather, it's built around offering a comforting companion to humans and ...

Unlike other robot pets, such as Sony's Aibo dog, the Moflin hasn't been designed to chase balls or be an active pet — rather, it's built around offering a comforting companion to humans and building ...

Japanese tech behemoth Sony launched its Soneium blockchain yesterday, but some unexpected choices led to criticism by crypto ...

Soneium announced it would pay attention to copyright infringements, after freezing two tokens based on SONY intellectual ...

Some of the damage from the strike was offset by a favorable exchange rate, according to Sony, which makes PlayStation game machines, Spider-Man movies and Aibo robotic dogs. The Japanese yen has ...