WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

Standing at 1.75 meters tall, weighing just 30 kilograms, fitted with expressive eyes that can blink and frown, and along ...

UChicago study finds social robots could help students feel less stress when reading aloud, pointing to new uses for ...

Officials in a Japanese city are banking on robots to boost the confidence of absent pupils. The self-propelling robots will connect to pupils at home, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported. The ...

William Xie, a first-year PhD student in computer science, is teaching a robot to reason how gently it should grasp previously unknown objects by using large language models (LLMs). DeliGrasp, Xie's ...

KITE distributes robotics kits to Lakshadweep schools, enhancing robotics education for tenth-grade students with hands-on learning.

Social robots are designed to interact with humans in a meaningful manner and play an increasing role within the field of human-computer interaction. They have several potential societal applications, ...

Robots might need to become more boring to be useful. We’ve all seen videos over the past few years demonstrating how agile humanoid robots have become, running and jumping with ease. We’re no longer ...

Newly developed mathematical rules allow virtual swarms of tiny robots to build without blueprints. In computer simulations, the robots built honeycomb-like structures without ever following - or even ...

NORMAL — A 27-pound “dog” is Heartland Community College’s latest tool to get, and keep, young people interested in career and technical education. The Unitree Go1 robot was purchased last year ...

KITE has already provided 29,000 robotics kits to schools in Kerala. Additionally, arrangements have been made for schools ...