Over the past decade, social robotics and affective AI have emerged as promising tools in educational and therapeutic ...

Robots, integrated into biological systems as sociable partners, offer promising advancement in the mechanistic understanding of social behaviours. These biohybrid systems bring controllability to ...

Toshiba has developed two technologies that will enable robots to interact with several people at once as well as follow them around without bumping into them. The company wants to sell robots that ...

Soft robots capable of self-driven information transmission hold great promise for enabling intelligent interactions that better emulate the behavior of living organisms; however, achieving such ...

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...