As humanoid robots move from labs into homes, stores, and warehouses, a simple question is gaining urgency: who teaches them ...

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angelica Lim, an associate professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University, creates algorithms designed to help robots ...

How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot? Social robots – robots that can talk and mimic and respond to human emotion – have been introduced into classrooms around the world.

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new methodology for a robot to learn how to move its arms autonomously by combining a type of observational learning with ...

I’m standing in a kitchenette at a Google office in Mountain View, California, observing a robot at work. It’s staring at items on a counter: bubbly water, a bag of whole-grain chips, an energy drink, ...

Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community weren’t learning about their own Indigenous culture and history. Oftentimes, schools only teach about colonial settlers’ ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while ...

For decades, robotics has focused on mastering the physics of the world. We have poured enormous effort into manipulation, ...

Changing robot standards provide an opportunity for designers of cobots to deliver improved safety and greater functionality, ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Dec. 26, 2022. Find that audio here. Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community weren’t learning about their own ...