Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that allows robots to distinguish between human emotions ...

Robots are getting smarter—and faster—at knowing what humans are feeling and thinking just by “looking” into their faces, a development that might one day allow more emotionally perceptive machines to ...

A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the ...

While Russia and the U.N. are worrying about autonomous destructive military robots, Japan is making a happy, cooing robot. Japanese billionaire/robot enthusiast Masayoshi Son said his robot is tender ...

Amazon’s new “Vulcan” warehouse robot — capable of picking, stowing and rearranging three-quarters of the items Amazon stocks — could put a vast swath of America’s blue collar workforce in the ...

Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can answer questions like an ancient Greek philosopher.

Japanese are also more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid ...