A six-week Japanese study found that encouragement from both a human partner and the social robot RoBoHoN was linked to ...
A robot does not need to feel emotions for a person to become emotionally attached to it. That is one of the clearest lessons emerging from research on social robots. People can name them, talk to ...
Every morning, the first voice to greet Deborah Humphrey is one that calls her “nugget.” It belongs to ElliQ, an AI companion robot that Humphrey, 73, received through her local New York State Office ...
When a human and a robot share a workbench, the biggest bottleneck is not the machine. It is the human brain, forced to ...