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 ...

In a study conducted in a waiting-room setting, a robot called MirrorBot encouraged conversations, playful exchanges, and other interactions between strangers. The findings suggest that robots can ...

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 ...

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has rapidly emerged as a powerful approach for enabling robots to acquire adaptive, data-driven behaviors in real-world ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to influence all facets of our personal and professional lives, questions abound, ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Science Centre Singapore hosts its first robotics and AI festival, helping children understand and create with technology. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The researchers developed round fluffy robots with motorized ribcages that can simulate breathing by expanding and contracting. More than 100 participants held these robots, which breathed in a ...