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People Patted by Robot While Conversing Report Better Emotional State

A small study has discovered that people who were touched by a humanoid robot while talking with it later reported an improved emotional state and more probably comply with a request from the robot.

6 May 2021

KIT's Real-World Lab "Robotic Artificial Intelligence" Aims to Make AI Tangible Through Experiments

Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is subject of imagination, films, and stories, but it also is reality. Superhuman capacity of AI is obvious in games as well as in image and language processing, in autonomous driving, in digital language assistants, and chatbots.

27 Jan 2021

Why Soft Skills Could Power the Rise of Robot Leaders

What would the world look like if socially-skilled robots stepped into the roles normally reserved for humans?

2 Dec 2020

Research Reveals Why Robots with Humanlike Features Elicit Uncanny Feelings

Androids, or robots with humanlike features, are often more appealing to people than those that resemble machines -- but only up to a certain point.

11 Sep 2020

New Patent Granted to Innovative Robotic Joint

An innovative robotic joint was granted a new patent by the German Patent Office on July 23rd, 2020.

31 Aug 2020

Study Shows Children are Skeptical Toward Humanoid Robots

A new study focused on the interactions between children and robots was performed at the Norwegian research fair held in all major cities.

13 Aug 2020

ERC Proof of Concept Project Focuses on Empowering Robots with Artificial Intelligence Methods

Present-day robots are made for the purpose of repeating several tasks thousands of times. To make robots more widely applicable, future robots need to be able to do thousands of tasks just a few times.

29 Jul 2020

Robot with Built-in Humanoid Jaws Could Help Develop Medicated Chewing Gum

Researchers have recognized that medicated chewing gum is a novel, sophisticated drug delivery approach. However, at present, there is no gold standard for in vitro testing of drug release from chewing gum.

15 Jul 2020

Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors — silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain.

10 Jun 2020

Study Investigates Role of Service Robots in Hotels After COVID-19 Impact

Dr Tracy Xu, the lead author of the study and a lecturer in hospitality at the University of Surrey’s world-renowned School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, has published her paper recently in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.

7 May 2020

Humanoids News

People Patted by Robot While Conversing Report Better Emotional State

KIT's Real-World Lab "Robotic Artificial Intelligence" Aims to Make AI Tangible Through Experiments

Why Soft Skills Could Power the Rise of Robot Leaders

Research Reveals Why Robots with Humanlike Features Elicit Uncanny Feelings

New Patent Granted to Innovative Robotic Joint

Study Shows Children are Skeptical Toward Humanoid Robots

ERC Proof of Concept Project Focuses on Empowering Robots with Artificial Intelligence Methods

Robot with Built-in Humanoid Jaws Could Help Develop Medicated Chewing Gum

Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip

Study Investigates Role of Service Robots in Hotels After COVID-19 Impact

The Development of an Algorithm that Helps Soft Robots Understand Their Surroundings

How a Team from MIT is Using an AI Tool to Detect Melanoma

Using an AI Device and Platform to Help Those with Hand Weakness

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The Development of an Algorithm that Helps Soft Robots Understand Their Surroundings

How a Team from MIT is Using an AI Tool to Detect Melanoma

Using an AI Device and Platform to Help Combat Hand Weakness

Humanoids News

1 New Law of Physics Could Help Advance Wide Range of Robotic Technologies

2 Modern Drones Could Mimic 300-Million-Year-Old Dragonflies

3 New Robotic Solution Wins Agribusiness Innovation Prize

4 Lia: First AI Persona is Already a Huge Hit on Social Media

5 New Small-Scale Robots can Fertilize, Weed, Cull Single Plants in Field

6 3D Printed Robotic ‘Elephant Trunk’ is Guided by Machine Learning

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