In the fourth episode of this new series from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Marynel Vázquez about what inspired her ...

Designed for public-facing roles, Noetix’s Hobbs W1 combines a “female-styled” lifelike bionic head and interactive display ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Researchers who develop social robots – ones that people interact with – focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, according to Cornell and Indiana ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...

Social robots can be a non-threatening way for children to improve their reading skills, researchers say. Meeting key learning targets in primary school is important, and the early years are the best ...

Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn the attention of researchers and generated headlines.

It was only a matter of time before we started to think about how robots can design – other robots. In fact, I’ve been having these conversations with people ever since the arrival of ChatGPT, as we ...

Sam Kriegman, a professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, is something of a local celebrity. He can often be found on television shows explaining the wonders of his new invention – ...

Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These ...