A robot dog and actors perform lion dance during a temple fair celebrating the Lantern Festival at Xihu District in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang ...

Robotic fluffy animals will soon be bringing comfort ... wards across the county in the hope cuddles with the toy cats and dogs will soothe patients. They are described as lifelike companions ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--In a lab tightly packed with models of therapy robots, a harp seal with light pink hair looked up at the person stroking its fluffy ... for a pet robot because I ...

BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Humankind has been keeping pets, such as dogs and cats ... to a burgeoning realm of robot "pets" that are quite different from their fluffy, biological kin.