It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

A new HRI paper from the RAI Institute explores hands-on public perception of robots ...

Unlike the controlled environments of factories or warehouses, everyday communication in homes is filled with ambiguity that ...

UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively ...

While technology has made the world "smaller," it has also pulled individuals apart, thanks to mobile phones and other ...

Precision in human-robot interaction depends on the ability to recognise and track human faces along with detailed facial ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information to perform an action. You can find them nearly everywhere in industrialized societies today. There are household robots that ...

AI stacks require heavy processing and high energy use. Humanoid robots run on batteries with limited power. This makes it ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...