Tech companies are making AI-powered robots cuter and more realistic to increase comfort and accelerate adoption in homes and public spaces.

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

Robot designers are increasingly making bots cuter so that they are more attractive for humans to interact with.

Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mark Yim has completed the second phase of a human-robot interaction research project at Penn’s ModLab. The project primarily aims to develop Quori, a ...

When interacting with highly realistic humanoid robots, the simple presence of eyes strongly shapes how humans perceive the machine’s mental abilities. A recent study published in Consciousness and ...

How we relate to humanoid robots matters. In the video below, Cleo Abram demonstrates what it was like to mistreat the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot. She was surprised by her emotional reaction. She ...

For the Human-Robot Interaction research community, the authors call for deeper engagement with labor sociology, urban studies, and policy analysis . Evaluating robots solely through metrics of task ...

1X Robotics, backed by OpenAI, has unveiled the Neo beta, a humanoid robot demonstrating advanced movement and agility. The robot’s fluidity and human-like actions have sparked discussions about its ...