If something unexpected happens to the robot in a physical world that’s outside of the parameters it was trained on in simulation, it might have trouble properly responding. “Our goal is a robot that ...

He is shaped like a bin and has the curiosity of a six-year-old but Koobo's creator says the robot has the potential to cure ...

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Elon Musk fathered robot baby Jesus. And no, not like in the “this child will save us” Barron Trump meme stanning. Like Elon ...

Desperate for a solution, the parent came across the “robot” technique which she described as showing “no emotion, no attention” towards the child and involves simply putting them back to ...

An eerily realistic humanoid robot — purported to be the “world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android” — twitched to life in a viral clip, which viewers have slammed as “dystopian ...

Multiple participants said that Apple's prototype robot lamp "[reminded] them of a 'puppy' or 'child.'" To me, that sounds like the kind of thing that could make a smart home robot catch on with ...

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction.

In the pavilion, adult androids called “Yamatoroids” and child androids called “Asukaroids” (both named after ancient words for areas in Japan) will welcome visitors with eye contact and ...