Cornell and Brown University researchers have unveiled VRoxy, an advanced telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a user's movements and gestures in virtual reality (VR).

A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to attend ...

The appeal of virtual reality is the promise of being able to go anywhere—to ancient civilizations or fictional alien worlds—without ever leaving your home. Every day, technology brings this closer ...

As amazing as VR can be, nothing breaks the immersion like putting your hand right through a wall. While some teams are using haptics to simulate the sense of touch, a new study has a clever ...

The West Japan Rail Company (or JR West) unveiled its Gundam-style heavy equipment robot for carrying out repairs. The robot takes on the appearance of a humanoid upper body mounted on the end of a ...

Researchers have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user's movements and gestures made in virtual reality. Researchers from Cornell and ...

WTF?! I have reported extensively on ways that developers are trying to make virtual reality more immersive. It's one of my favorite topics. I love technologies that make VR more like real life.

At the threshold of the autonomous revolution, one fact has remained stubbornly consistent for the last half-century: Controlling robots is a pain. Virtual reality, it turns out, could be the key to ...