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Dec. 7, 2020 —According to a new study, making eye contact with a robot may have the same effect on people as eye contact with another person. The results predict that interaction between humans and humanoid ...
Mar. 14, 2023 —Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace -- but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot looks ...
Feb. 27, 2021 —Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? ...
Dec. 1, 2021 —Researchers have found that the physical texture of robots influenced perceptions of robot personality. Furthermore, first impressions of robots, based on physical appearance alone, could influence ...
Mar. 28, 2023 —Researchers found that preschoolers prefer learning from what they perceive as a competent robot over an incompetent human. This study is the first to use both a human speaker and a robot to see if ...
Feb. 6, 2023 —Performing human-like motions that involve multiple contacts is challenging for robots. In this regard, a researcher has envisioned an interactive cyber-physical human (iCPH) platform with ...
Feb. 21, 2023 —Engineering researchers are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their ...
Apr. 21, 2021 —Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of the highway? Researchers have now designed a ...
June 27, 2022 —Researchers studied the effect of the 'attitudes' of a semi-autonomous telepresence robot on its human operator. They found that when a person controlled only a part of the body of a ...
Sep. 1, 2022 —Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study ...