Researchers at IIT Bombay and Southern Methodist University are using classical dance form Bharatanatyam to robots more like ...

It’s been suggested that an advance party of robots will be needed if humans are ever to settle on other planets. Sent ahead to create conditions favorable for humankind, these robots will need to be ...

The ARE project is led from the University of York, partnering with Edinburgh Napier University, Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It is funded by the EPSRC under grant ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world domination.

A recent study presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Robotic Learning examines a new method for teaching robots how to ask for further instructions when carrying out tasks with the goal of ...

I’m standing in a kitchenette at a Google office in Mountain View, California, observing a robot at work. It’s staring at items on a counter: bubbly water, a bag of whole-grain chips, an energy drink, ...

Politeness doesn’t really amount to much when you’re programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely ...

A team of researchers in Germany recently published a study examining the relationship between language and trustworthiness when it comes to human views on talking robots. The question at hand was ...

In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

Education technology has many faces. A prominent one has long been computer-assisted language learning, offering great promise for struggling readers, non-English speakers, or those seeking to master ...

Controlled remotely by English teachers in the Philippines, the 29 robots wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them, and dancing to music by moving their head ...