Social bonding between humans, animals, and robots: Dogs outperform AIBOs, their robotic replicas, as social companions - Stella Klumpe; Kelsey C. Mitchell; Emma Cox; Jeffrey S. Katz; Lucia Lazarowski; Gopikrishna Deshpande; Jonathan Gratch; Ewart J. de Visser; Hasan Ayaz; Xingnan Li; Adrian A. Franke; Frank Krueger (PLoS ONE, 2025)