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Majority of Users Prefer Expressive Robots than More Efficient, Less Error Prone Ones

Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests.

22 Aug 2016

Space Center Houston, NineSigma Announce Launch of NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

Building homes on Mars and interplanetary travel are no longer the stuff of science fiction; the latest achievements in robotics are putting these dreams within our reach.

18 Aug 2016

Sheffield Robotics Set to Advance UK’s Robotics Research

Sheffield is at the center of the UK’s robotic research, with the potential to become the leading city in the field worldwide.

27 Jul 2016

Georgia Tech Researchers Create Most Efficient-Walking Humanoid

What do you give a robot when it takes it first steps like a human? Its first pair of shoes.

13 Jul 2016

New Protocols Enable Robots to Cooperate with One Another on Complex Jobs Using Body Language

Sometimes all it takes to get help from someone is to wave at them, or point. Now the same is true for robots. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed work on an EU project aimed at enabling robots to cooperate with one another on complex jobs, by using body language.

28 Jun 2016

Many Cutting-Edge Robotic Systems Aim to Help People be Better

Many new robots look less like the metal humanoids of pop culture and more like high-tech extensions of ourselves and our capabilities.

10 Jun 2016

SBRA Invites Developers to Gain Access to Next Level Interactive Humanoid Robot

SoftBank Robotics America (SBRA), the newly established North American headquarters of SoftBank Robotics Holdings, today invites developers into its new global Developer Portal, to gain access to the next level of interactive high-tech: Pepper, the humanoid robot.

20 May 2016

Free-Standing Bipedal Robot Navigates Uneven Terrains

University of Michigan has a free-standing bipedal robot capable of walking down steep slopes, across a thin layer of snow, and over jagged and uneven ground. The feedback control algorithms of the robot can now be applied to assist other two-legged robots, including powered prosthetic legs to achieve similar capabilities.

9 May 2016

Researchers Use Human-Robot Interactions to Treat Patients with Serious Social Disorders

A collaborative research team has found humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from social disorders such as schizophrenia or social phobia. It is thanks to the theory of similarity, which suggests that it is easier to interact socially with someone who looks, behaves or moves like us.

12 Apr 2016

UCLA’s Roboticists Create Advanced Humanoid Robots

Dennis Hong, director of UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), with his graduate and undergraduate students, have designed innovative robots that can extinguish fires on ships, enter power plants to stop radiation leaks, climb up construction sites to do risky inspections, and safely pass through battlefields. Some robots can even play soccer, one tiny robot can break-dance. These robots come in different sizes and shapes, with various numbers of legs.

25 Mar 2016