Last year, researchers found that when kids met a robot in the mall, they would often try to beat it up. Last week, at a shopping center in the Bay Area, the opposite happened: a security robot took ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The parents of a young boy who got knocked down and run over by a security robot at Stanford Shopping Center want to get the word out to prevent others from getting hurt. They ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A young boy was knocked down and run over by a security robot in Palo Alto, according to his parents. The parents of 16-month-old Harwin Cheng said the boy had a frightening ...

Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them. I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static ...

JOHN. WELL, MARIA, THE SUSPECT WAS A VOLUNTEER WITH A ROBOTICS TEAM HERE FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS AND THE ALLEGATIONS HAVE RAISED A LOT OF CONCERNS FOR PARENTS AS WE DON’T KNOW WHEN IT STARTED. THAT’S A ...

Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation.… There ...