An innovative clinical trial examining whether robotic companion pets can improve the outcomes of hospitalized older adults ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As millions of older adults across the United States continue to experience loneliness and social isolation, non-profit ...

Technology is often viewed as a contributor to our culture's epidemic of loneliness and isolation, but one company is trying to prove the opposite. Ageless Innovation's meowing "cats," wagging "dogs," ...

Helen Macura has always wanted a dog, but the Prohibition-era home she has lived in since 1945 isn't safe for a potential pet. Her childhood dream of owning a dog finally came true a couple years ago, ...

Tombot, a California-based robotics company that makes a robotic puppy that serves as a companion animal for people who cannot care for a live animal, announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $6 ...