A cat nuzzling against your leg or a dog resting its head on your lap can melt away the day’s stress. But what if a robot could do the same? Inspired by the gentle head-butting behavior of ...

(Scientific term: “facial pareidolia”) [Rongzhong Li] built a robot sensor array with multiple ... When he looked at his sensor array, he saw the face of a cat looking back at him.

Foxes are cat software running on dog hardware ... Very much a work in progress — [Will]’s RoboFox lacks both a head and a tail, which he aims to add at some point — there are some ...