Social robotics has emerged as a transformative approach in interventions for individuals on the autism spectrum, offering highly controlled, repeatable interactions that can be tailored to individual ...

Very young children (even as young as 3 years old) can read intention and preferences in the eyes of a person, but they do ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly integrates into decision-making across industries, concerns about trust, fairness, transparency, and ethical considerations continue to shape user adoption ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello Robot's Stretch 4 is a wheeled robot designed for safe home assistance, offering an alternative to humanoid robots with its omnidirectional base.