Eye contact is a key to establishing a connection, and teachers use it often to encourage participation. But can a robot do this too? Can it draw a response simply by making "eye" contact, even with ...

SketRobo and DanceRobo are among the bots shown by the company SketRobo is a small robot that can draw pictures ranging from pre-programmed ones to custom portraits. The robot at IFA held an ink pen ...

Named Elf V1, the advanced bionic humanoid robot can perceive the world, communicate, learn, and interact intelligently with ...

The roboticist also points out how adult-human-sized humanoid robots pose significant safety challenges in shared human ...

There are so many important design decisions behind a robot: battery, means of locomotion, and position sensing, to name a few. But at a library in Helsinki, one of the most surprising design features ...

Researchers published results of experiments in which robots led a Swedish word game with individuals whose proficiency in the Nordic language was varied. They found that by redirecting its gaze to ...