Wait until you see what the mechanic charges. 
I might get one, but it would be more of a toy than a pet. Much of the fun of pets is knowing that there’s another sentient mind there; playing say fetch with a dog is more fun because the dog is clearly enjoying himself at least as much as you are.
Now, if the robopet AI was good enough to actually be aware and have emotions, that would be another matter.
I think, even now, engineers could program a pseudo-pet to emulate animal behaviors well enough to pass a doggie “Turing Test.” I knew people who got seriously emotionally involved with their Tamagotchi pets – and not just stupid people, either.
So, add the very best of current AI sim programming, to mechanical engineering advances in the next 50 years, and I think we could have robodogs that would comfortably accommodate our suspension of disbelief, if not our actual belief. It wouldn’t be good enough to fool us…but it would be good enough to make us feel good playing around with one.
Cats, of course, are easier, since they never listen to anything other than the rustling of the food bag anyway. Easy peasy to program!
No. What’s the point?
Although now you have me wondering if my cats would want a robot human…
I would not want a robotic pet. That would be a toy.
You guys know Sony made a robotic dog “Aibo” that had 3 generations, right? It’s no longer made 
Those Furreal friends pets are amazingly good. If I could not have a living pet in my home for some reason, I’d have one of those. Otherwise, I prefer the real thing.
that pretty much sums it up..
There are enough machines around us already..
I would love one actually, not having to worry about poop, food, water, etc…? and is otherwise indistinguishable from a real one? hell yeah, would be awesome.
Also, of course, it’s a very short jump from a robotic pet to a robotic sex toy…
(Apologies if this is threadshitting.)
I also have a toy replica of Bubo, the little mechanical owl from Clash of the Titans, but it’s only a static prop. (Toy owls are fun!)
I’ve got one.
I’ve also got an R2D2, a couple dozen wind-up robots (and a wind-up duck, chicken, crab, and bee) and a remote control spider.
It’s fun to let R2D2 and Wall-e both go exploring in the living room, but they do occasionally run into each other (despite the fact that they both have collision avoidance systems).
ETA: Of course I would want a robotic pet.
The reason I love my dog is that I do have to invest in a certain amount of work to keep him happy and healthy. Feeding him, making sure he has enough water, yes, even dealing with his poop, which is minimal work, because he’s housebroken and I can just scoop it up from the yard, all require that I actively think about his welfare instead of ignoring him unless I actually want to play with him. Yes, I know you could program a robot dog to seek you out for attention, but it just wouldn’t be the same. My dog needs me. A robot wouldn’t.
pets are very important to child development. If you give a kid a pet dog the educational effect would not be the same at all… it’s about caring for someone weaker than you
I’d want one, on condition that I was convinced it was ‘proper’ AI. Also, I’ want it to look like a robot. - a replicant dog doesn’t really interest me, but I’d love an Iron Chicken
lol an iron chicken would be funny … can it be a guard chicken for the pen? kick foxes and such?
Alternatively, a realistic rendition of something fictional, mythical or extinct would be cool - a little dragon, or gryphon, or a some trilobites for the garden pond.
“Is he housebroken or will he be leaving little batteries all over the floor?”
… given that my canary loved '50s RnR, wouldn’t the really-really-really-oldies station already count as a robot canary? Ah, no: he warbled along but didn’t sing the lyrics.
I would like to have a canary again, but a feathers-and-bones one (Groc sure didn’t seem to have a lot of flesh between the other two). Or a cat, but again: poop and all.
Having something programmable and robotic and deeming it a pet would be the same as having a vibrator and considering it your life-long partner.
So, ah, that’d be a ‘no’ from me.
Hell yes. I wouldn’t want a robotic cat, because cats are assholes, but a robotic dog? No allergens, no dying before me, just running around being awesome. Sign me up!
ETA: I also want it to look robotic, all chrome and Tron lines. AWESOME.