AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase.

Despite huge technical progress, these robots are still clumsy at handling everyday tasks in homes or hospitals or other ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Purdue University researcher Sooyeon Jeong is working to make robots more helpful and personable. Jeong, an assistant professor of computer science, leads a lab that focuses on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Last year, when The New York Times reported that Amazon’s robotics team’s ultimate goal was to automate 75% of the company’s operations, replacing more than half a million human jobs in an attempt to ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...