When Nao is sad, he hunches his shoulders. When happy, he raises his arms. He can even form bonds with people depending on how he is treated, according to The Guardian The robot was programmed with ...

Nadine, a socially intelligent, human-looking robot complete with "her own personality, mood and emotions". Has been unveiled by scientists at Nanyang Technogical ...

Sometimes robots make us feel uneasy because they make us think of death. Now, researchers are putting some real effort behind making our immortal creations feel a bit more alive. Humanlike robots can ...

If someone suddenly taps you on the shoulder, your eyes might widen, or you might flinch. People respond instantly to such stimuli, and if the same stimuli are repeated, they gradually become ...

Humans can "catch" fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings—by a team of psychologists from the University of ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes part of everyday life, it is also finding a role in health care. At a children’s hospital in the US state of Massachusetts, a therapeutic robot named Robin ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists explored how robots of the future could detect human emotions through touch, specifically by analysing changes in skin conductance. This approach measures how ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to ...