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 ...

You like robots? You’re gonna love this. This is an iPad app all about robots. Just robots, nothing but robots, loads and loads and loads of robots. It’s made of robots, in the same way we are made of ...

When a one-foot robot dog rolled into a Rock Springs Elementary School classroom recently, two dozen third-graders hounded its owners with questions. The talking robot reflects Gwinnett County Public ...

When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him. Tell Me Dave is a large, vaguely humanoid bot that can cook simple meals according to spoken instructions.

Talking robots that interact with older people could be introduced into care homes to help fight loneliness and mental ill health. Pepper, a “culturally competent robot,” was tested on care home ...