“Most people had no problem shaking a silent robot, but as soon as the robot began to make pitiful sounds, they chose to do ...

A game involving virtual cattle herding has provided new insights into human decision-making around movement and navigation. The video game exercise was part of a study aimed at exploring how ...

The reasons vary from lab to lab. There are robots built for entertainment purposes. Others are helping to solve real-life human problems. Sometimes experiments are designed for one thing but ...

A video game in which participants herded virtual cattle has furthered our understanding of how humans make decisions on ...

A humanoid robot made by a Chinese company proposes to redefine personalized elderly care and assistance for people with ...

to a robot. She calls the ... you can see that she feels real affection for it. "I don't consider him a stupid machine," she tells me. "But he is not a human either. I love him the way he is." ...

Why would we build robots ... People need real, meaningful work like taking care of each other and the people we love. We should use technology to give us more time to be human, to do more ...

Automation has come a long way from its industrial roots, where massive robotic arms assembled cars and automated systems ...

When he expressed suicidal thoughts, the bot told him not to talk like that, but in language that seemed to hype up his ...

In the classic cartoon "The Jetsons," Rosie the robotic maid seamlessly switches from vacuuming the house to cooking dinner ...

The University of Connecticut welcomed Dr. Jaime Banks for the Department of Communication’s Speaker Series yesterday, to share her research in human and machine interactions through AI.

Meanwhile, some real-life news anchors may take up ... Therefore, I believe that robots cannot, should not, and will not replace human news anchors. First of all, AI anchors may wear suits but ...