The Lassie of the future will not bark for the sheriff. Instead, a wireless sensor on her harness will detect gas in an earthquake-shattered building, then text the drones and first responders on the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Dog training takes time and also takes a certain level of expertise. Those are two reasons North Carolina State University’s Computer Science and Engineering departments, as ...

While it's important that dogs know some basic obedience commands at the very least, training them can be a monotonous and frustrating experience. Well, perhaps before too long, we could have ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University are inventing technology to decode dog talk. Hari Sreenivasan visits a computer science lab that has designed a harness to monitor physiological and ...

Can kids learn to let sleeping dogs lie by playing a computer game? A new study finds that the answer is "sort of." A software program designed to teach kids how to interact safely with dogs does ...

Dr. Melody Moore Jackson is feigning urgency. Sky, a black-and-white border collie, dutifully turns to a large touch-screen computer monitor and uses his nose to tap a blue dot first, then yellow.