For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the ...

What happens when you combine an Arduino-based microcontroller with a palm-sized aluminum box and clicky buttons? A fidget ...

Chatbots can be overly agreeable. To get less agreeable responses, ask for opposing viewpoints, multiple perspectives, and a ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

One of the promises underwriting the AI boom is that software will be able to use computers on our behalf. At the low end, this looks like the “deep research” tools AI firms have already released that ...

Delivery robots are increasingly navigating sidewalks and streets, transporting food, groceries, and packages directly to consumers. These autonomous delivery systems are moving beyond pilot programs ...

Introduction: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM). This pilot study examined whether a commercially available toy robot (Cozmo) could support ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Humanoid robots are back. Videos of robots folding laundry or brewing espresso have flooded social ...

Roland, Sully, and Stacey stroll the sidewalks of the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago -- except they aren't people, they're robots. They are a part of a pilot program the city has with Serve and Coco ...

The U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has launched a new funding program aimed at the development of autonomous robotics—including a special focus on systems designed to ...