Jibo's back, sort of ...

When a robot offers you candy, it is hard not to be curious. In an experiment conducted by ethologists at ELTE, visitors at ...

Social robots can be a non-threatening way for children to improve their reading skills, researchers say. Meeting key learning targets in primary school is important, and the early years are the best ...

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social ...

Social robotics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the design, implementation and evaluation of robots that engage humans through social behaviours, often encompassing speech, gesture, ...

For years, the promise of the "robot age" has been framed by two distinct technical triumphs: the physical agility of high-end hardware and the linguistic fluency of large language models (LLMs). We ...

Proposed Acquisition Would Mark Pivotal Step in Advancing Humanity Through Social-Intelligence Robotics and AI-Driven Understanding of the Human World ...

Dancing robots flood Chinese social media. Flipping robots go viral. Yet at Haidilao, Beijing's showcase hotpot restaurant ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...