This research topic belongs to the Robotics research area.
The aim is to investigate as objects that could be found in normal antropic environment can have a character, personality trait/emotion/mood and move to interact with people.
Some reference literature:
David Sirkin, Brian Mok, Stephen Yang, Wendy Ju (2015) Mechanical Ottoman: How Robotic Furniture Offers and Withdraws Support. HRI 2015
Ongoing projects on this topic:
IGOHR