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Pepper the Robot Joins School to Support Autistic Young People

A socially intelligent robot is lending a helping hand to pupils at a special needs school in Somerset, England, as part of a project led by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) researchers.

25 Jun 2021

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