Pop culture has often depicted robots as cold, metallic, and menacing, built for domination, not compassion. But at Georgia ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the ...

USF is working to improve communication in emergencies and everyday life by teaching robots to project instructions onto ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF have developed cognitive robot capabilities that can handle complex tasks in manufacturing that were previously ...

Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The counterintuitive notion that it’s harder to build artificial bodies than artificial minds is not a new one. In 1988, the computer ...

Yen-Ling Kuo is an assistant professor of computer science who earned a $665,000 grant to advance "theory of mind" concepts in robots as a faculty affiliate of UVA's Link Lab. As automation becomes ...

Through artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics, Case School of Engineering’s researchers are developing technologies for smart cities, smart manufacturing, smart homes, smart ...

Humans have a way of understandings others' goals, desires and beliefs, a crucial skill that allows us to anticipate people's actions. Taking bread out of the toaster? You'll need a plate. Sweeping up ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...