Building a robot takes boatloads of technical skills, a whole lot of time, the right materials, of course – and maybe a ...

Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have discovered. These findings could improve the success of real-world human-robot teams ...

Blockchains and smart contracts enable autonomous machines to team with humans in healthcare, education, manufacturing, and ...

AI and robots bring legal, ethical, and societal challenges to humans. A new handbook discusses societal impacts, values, and ...

By embedding principles of embodiment, social interaction, and development, they are poised to become invaluable partners in achieving sustainable, human-centric industrial systems.

Most often, humans and robots do not have to work directly together, instead working on different parts in a production pipeline or with the robot performing tasks instead of a human. In such ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-enabled robots are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives. Real-time, flexible ...

Researchers developed a "waveform movement" technology enabling robots to express emotions through natural facial gestures.

Why build a complicated and awkward human-shaped robot to climb in and weld a car boy together, when a six-jointed ... a perfectly flexible human body to work with, they lack the intelligence ...

In areas from humanoid coworker bots to AI robot brains, startups developing some of the most scifi-esque applications of ...

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