Penn State researchers found many problems with the current generation of social robots. Foto Astrid Eckert/ Universidad Técnica de Munich (TUM) Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights ...

Clara Berridge, a gerontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, recalls a story told by a colleague to a group of health-care and social-work students. Nature Outlook: Robotics and ...

While the rise of artificial intelligence is proving to be a contentious issue, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found that the use of social robots in a commercial setting would ...

Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn the attention of researchers and generated headlines.

Human beings are hardwired for social connection – so much so that we think of even the most basic objects as having feelings or experiences. (Yup, we're talking to you, Roomba owners!) Social robots ...

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 ...

Experts from government, academia, and industry from around the world convened at the ‘Workshop on Shaping Pathways for the Future of Social Robots’, a session organised by the UAE Centre for the ...

People who speak the Berlin dialect trust social robots speaking the same dialect more than social robots speaking standard German Social robots can help us with many things: teaching, learning, ...

This article was taken from the April 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on ...

Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn the attention of researchers and generated headlines.