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 ...

Edging ever closer to technology that won’t need us at all to progress. Want to program your own robot but lack the coding knowledge? Maybe you have an abundance of android allies, but a scarcity of ...

Touch is the first sense that humans develop before birth. It is an intimate, emotional way to communicate and can convey a lot of information. I study touch in the context of human–robot interaction, ...

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley have developed a framework that allows robots to teach each other without human intervention. Historically, robots struggle to transfer skills ...

The Pentagon’s most advanced tech-development wing has succeeded in developing a mathematical language so advanced it could allow robots to learn by watching YouTube videos. The real intention was to ...

Nature is brimming with animals that collaborate in large numbers. Bees stake out the best feeding spots and let others know where they are. Ants construct complex hierarchical homes built for defense ...

Researchers have been analyzing how humanoid robots relate to people and say teaching the machines how to understand emotion may be essential in getting the best from them. Professor Bouchra Senadji ...