Robot dogs just as good as the real things in reducing the emptiness and loneliness of modern life

robot-dogs-just-as-good-as-real-ones.jpgResearchers at Saint Louis University gave one group of old people in nursing homes a proper biological dog made out of bones and meat, then tried a robotic AIBO out to see how the old folks reacted to the two.

They were both, incredibly, received very similarly, with the oldie subjects bonding pretty much equally with the robotic and real doggies…