In the 16 years since Sony introduced AIBO, the first robotic pet, consumer robotics has not exactly flowered. AIBO was a smooth-moving, shockingly intelligent and incredibly expensive product.

A company named WowWee has unveiled CHiP (Canine Home Intelligent Pet), your new surrogate pet in the form of a Smart Band-controlled black-and-white robot dog. CHiP comes packed with sensors. Its ...

At half a metre in height, with its multi-jointed limbs this little white bot can pull a pack of funky moves to rival any popper. The Alpha 1 robot, given away to Spark's first 100 customers who ...

Originally published by Jules Polonetsky on LinkedIn: Hey Chip! Our robot dog. Will robots replace humans at work? That's probably quite a ways off. But what about robotic pets? Those could be getting ...