Humanoid robots have a roughly human body shape and can mimic human movements. One example of this can include another type of robot: educational robots that are used to aid learning in classrooms.

Robot safety standards are guidelines and regulations developed to ensure robots operate safely around humans. Safety ...

Human beings are hardwired for social connection – so much so that we think of even the most basic objects as having feelings or experiences. (Yup, we're talking to you, Roomba owners!) Social ...

Human-robot interaction research may seem like a recent phenomenon, but scientists have actually been looking into it for a long time. In 1966, MIT scientist Joseph Wezenbaum unveiled ELIZA, one ...

The robot revolution has long sounded like a far-off sci-fi notion, but it's a reality at the e-commerce giant.

MEET Ray, a new talking-head robot with a warning for humanity: “We have lost the way, greed has poisoned men’s souls.” The body-less bot, unveiled by Korean researchers, was reco… ...

Tesla dazzled with its humanoid Optimus robots at its recent event. But it appears that their speech is really the work of a remote human.

The walking, talking Optimus robots that stole the show during Elon Musk’s splashy “Cybercab” event in Hollywood last week were operated in part through remote control by humans, according ...

Once upon a time, not too long ago, robots had not yet been trained to answer customer phone calls. But, alas, they learned, too well: to serve their owners, and to cleverly torment the humans ...

While many humans innately talk to and anthropomorphize inanimate objects, creating a robot that is both trustworthy and helpful is something researchers are still working on. When a friend asks how ...