People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on the needs of those they care for, they rarely get the chance to talk about ...

Social robotics and artificial intelligence are emerging as powerful tools for promoting inclusion and accessibility for people with disabilities.

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Hamburg. The study, presented at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed ...

Abstract: We are surrounded by interactive technologies that can listen, respond and adapt to us in everyday contexts as conversational and multimodal AI continues to advance. Realizing the full ...

In the movie, Robot & Frank, (2012) a lovable curmudgeon (and retired cat burglar) in his dotage finds a humanoid “personal assistant” robot on his doorstep, an unwelcome gift from his worried family.

Artificial intelligence works when computers learn from data that is readily available. But there is no data to teach robots ...

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social ...