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Roborock’s new robovac has a mechanical arm that can pick up your socks and maybe also play with your cat Samsung’s Ballie robot companion still comes in yellow, but has more AI and a promised ...

The full trailer let the cat out of the bag, or so I thought, with its revelation that Sophie Thatcher's character was actually an illegally-enhanced robot companion. Fortunately, the film has way ...

And he doesn't seem life-like enough to replace a real companion pet. I will say that I enjoyed Hasbro's robot cat a lot more than I thought I would. I think my coworkers and friends did too.