Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to communicate like ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

Autonomous robots could save human lives more easily if they could “see” and react better in adverse environmental conditions. By pursuing the possibilities of using millimeter wave radar for robotic ...

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to ...

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.

Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far ...

Matthew and Thomas Pidden from the UK designed a robot that solved a 4x4x4 cube in 45.30 seconds, smashing a 10-year-old ...