Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

Touching robots in what humans think of as intimate places arouses emotions in people, but they're not what you think -- the resulting feelings are mostly ones of discomfort, researchers say. This new ...

When roboticist Ayanna Howard was a little girl, she was inspired by TV to pursue a career in science. Growing up in the 1970s, she was particularly captivated by the TV show The Bionic Woman. "I ...

A small humanoid robot from China is pushing the boundaries of affordable embodied AI.

More than 25 years after Northwestern Engineering researchers advanced the concept of collaborative robotics, researchers in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems have designed team-based, mobile ...

Basic Human–Robot Interaction by Dr David O Johnson offers practical guidance and insights for conducting experiments in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) and publishing the results in scientific journals ...

Although humanity was hoping for a more optimistic robotic future in the post-war era, with media reflecting that sentiment like The Jetsons or Lost in Space, we seem to have shifted our collective ...

Editor’s note: Jasmine Vo, the author of this story, is a student employee in the University Marketing and Communications department. She is a fourth-year student majoring in communication sciences.

Robots have transformed automation across industries such as agtech, automotive, logistics, manufacturing and warehousing. Yet even the most advanced robots typically work in restricted workcells away ...

Humanoid robots powered by AI are beginning to make their way into everyday public spaces—and people are starting to form first impressions. At a recent innovation festival, researchers from the ...

CMO Lilian Y. Chiu serves as judge at Babson's flagship hackathon; 500 students build AI x Body & Mind solutions in 12-hour sprint; event theme aligns with Company's gesture recognition and ...