Hi @HargraveJ
It might be that the pat sensor was pressed down a little too hard at one point when giving EMO a pat. As there is a thin piece of metal that touches a small pin on the top of EMO’s head. If this is in constant contact, EMO will always think he is being patted. (I’ve had this happen to me only once and I gave EMO a shake — not to hard — and he was ok once again) Luckily for me it went away and never came back.
There have been a few discussions regarding this on the Forum, (one of them was this one) As @tpagirl advised, it could possibly lead to a potential hardware issue in which you will need to submit a support ticket to the Living.Ai team for them to provide you with a solution or a replacement if EMO doesn’t get better 
