A bionic hand and Cody, a robot built to assist teachers and nurses, were among the humanoids on display at the second annual ...

Social robots are back on the menu as new devices are debuting at the world’s largest trade show, CES 2026. Ollobot is a ...

Clara Berridge, a gerontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, recalls a story told by a colleague to a group of health-care and social-work students. Nature Outlook: Robotics and ...

Human beings are hardwired for social connection – so much so that we think of even the most basic objects as having feelings or experiences. (Yup, we're talking to you, Roomba owners!) Social robots ...

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 ...

Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn the attention of researchers and generated headlines.

People who speak the Berlin dialect trust social robots speaking the same dialect more than social robots speaking standard German Social robots can help us with many things: teaching, learning, ...

In a systematic review published in the journal Brain Sciences, scientists have discussed the utility and usefulness of social robots and brain-computer interface video games in treating young people ...

The United States guarantees 7.2 million students with disabilities an equal education. But the system is broken. For this package, we spoke with students, parents, teachers, and advocates about the ...