Pet Robot News & Insights

A quiet first-person story about someone who lost their longtime dog, Momo, and slowly began speaking to Mia, a small cat-shaped robot sent as a gift by their child.

A neutral guide to Microduck, the 25 cm open-source biped robot from Pollen Robotics under Hugging Face. Covers price, shipping timing, gamepad control, reinforcement learning, sim-to-real workflows, Japan price estimates in yen, buying risks, and how it differs from Mia.

MIO AI is a palm-sized AI partner from Jinwa Shoji Co., Ltd., launched on the Japanese crowdfunding platform Makuake. This review covers its glass, orb-like design, long-term memory conversation, mood-based expression changes, early-bird pricing, how it compares to Gatebox3, CODE27, WEHEAD, and ROLA One, and how it differs from Mia.

Sharp's second-generation Poketomo (model SR-C02M-H) is a conversational AI robot launching in Japan in December 2026. This review covers its blunt, tsundere "ore-sama" personality, the new auto-conversation feature between two units, pricing, and how it compares to the original Poketomo and to Mia.

A neutral look at ChiCaRo, a remote co-parenting robot from Japan's ChiCaRo Inc. that lets grandparents and parents living far away remote-control a body to play tag, house, and hide-and-seek with toddlers aged 0-3. Covers its features, the University of Electro-Communications study, undisclosed pricing, its AI chatbot sister product Kuku-chan, and how it compares with Mia.