Making emotional ties with inanimate objects instead of living beings is sad. Living being isn't ideal, it's not responding the way we would like it to. But it's what makes it real, what makes the relationship real. If we have an inanimate replacements for our emotional necessities, then, well.. there is something very wrong happening.

I can't believe there are Japanese companies who consider people so stupid, naive, childish, emotionally handicapped.

I really hope this is not characteristic of the Japanese people and society.

I thought the title meant they have new robots to clean the cat litter.

Wonder if virtual cats also come with allergies.

Making emotional ties with inanimate objects instead of living beings is sad. Living being isn't ideal, it's not responding the way we would like it to. But it's what makes it real, what makes the relationship real. If we have an inanimate replacements for our emotional necessities, then, well.. there is something very wrong happening.

We form 'ties' with various inanimate objects during the course of our lives including our cars, homes, computers etc. Some people at different levels, but it still happens.

This is not as strange as you may think.