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

There are constantly jokes about the day the robot uprising will take place and they’ll annihilate the human race. How many ...

Training robots to perform physical tasks is much more complicated than training artificial intelligence to write a paper.

There are a handful of companies out there building their own humanoid robots, but the face is such a tricky feature, that ...

Over 30 years of research show that we treat computers as if they are social entities as long as they meet three criteria, an ...

In a study conducted in a waiting-room setting, a robot called MirrorBot encouraged conversations, playful exchanges, and other interactions between strangers. The findings suggest that robots can ...

Imagine a world where robots clean your home, beaches, and even public spaces. We're already well on our way there, but a new self-learning robotic arm developed by researchers at TU Wien in Austria ...

The researchers developed round fluffy robots with motorized ribcages that can simulate breathing by expanding and contracting. More than 100 participants held these robots, which breathed in a ...