In 2003, researchers from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris tried to find out whether dogs would accept Sony's commercial dogbot AIBO as one of their own. The experiment resulted in a formal scientific publication, “Social behaviour of dogs encountering AIBO, an animal-like robot in a neutral and in a feeding situation”, and the insight that the answer is “no”.

• http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn14801-mad-science-nine-of-the-oddest-experiments-ever.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqtsR-2Ph94
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2003.10.003