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 ...

Baby FuFu expands on Yukai’s previous success with Nékojita FuFu, the drink-cooling robot that captured attention at earlier ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...