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

Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe other animals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers in the UK have designed a new groundbreaking type of social robot that mimics therapy horses and helps people regulate ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to collaborate with groups of robots to create visual art inspired by music. The platform combines swarm robotics, ...

Chinese gaming firm Papergames has recently posted multiple AI robotics-related roles on recruitment platforms, including ...

Discover what makes the Emo tiny robot so appealing, how it works, where it fits in the world of AI companions, and which ...

New research from the University of Chicago suggests that computers make better tutors when they don’t pretend to be human.

At 19, Teddy Warner has already tried a lot of things. He worked in a fabrication lab in his home state of North Carolina, studied at the University of Southern California for a year before dropping ...

Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners–like therapy horses who respond to human emotion–say University of Bristol researchers. Equine-assisted interventions ...

Tuya Smart just introduced Aura, its first AI-powered companion robot made for pets. Aura is designed specifically for household cats and dogs, with AI trained to recognize their behaviors, movements ...