The Vbot Robotic Companion Dog is a new robot pet announced at CES 2026, and this one is made to life with a family.

Exhibited at CES 2026, VBOT’s AI-powered emotional intelligence robot dog offer the comfort of a pet, without the barking or ...

The four-legged robots even kick around a soccer ball together. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) simultaneously cute and unsettling "back-flipping" robot dogs enjoyed some time outside ...

“Robots should work for humans, so they need to be able to interact with our environment and perceive our world the way we do,” said Ding Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

Robots can look like all sorts of things, but they’re often more fun if you make them look like some kind of charming animal. That’s precisely what [Ananya], [Laurence] and [Shao] did when they built ...

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