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Allergic to cats?
...a lot of my friends are.
For them, and you, now there's NeCoRo, a feline answer to the Sony Aibo robot-dog phenomenon by competitor Omron. NeCoRo site in Japanese, details in English here and here.
It doesn't walk like Aibo, or the prototype biped Honda Asimo seen in their recent commercial, but then how many cat-owners have a pet that actually follows them around?
What it does do is acknowledge your existence in a stationary fashion, and paw at interesting objects you dangle in front of it. It also has fur.
In other words, just like a real cat, but without the litter box or the allergies.
(Note: in fairness to my real cat, Mira, I must note that love, or any reasonable facsimile thereof, is not included. In fairness to the robot, however, I doubt that NeCoRo sheds copious amounts of hair for 3 to 4 months out of the year.)
