looking through the net, i have found lots of resources suitable for my report critique thing.
the 2 best ones i have found are:
http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/kaplan-er.pdf
which titles
Free creatures :
The role of uselessness in the design of artificial pets
in which it talks about the roles of robotic pets, and stuff about them,
and:
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/project/roux/2005-heriot-watt-msc-roux-robot-pet.pdf
The pursuit ability
of a robot ‘pet’

so yeah… its going well, half a page so far and only taken me… 2 hrs max, maybe 1.5 🙂