When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that ...

Robots are moving out of factories and into homes, hospitals, and public spaces. Experts say living together is possible, but ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...