Users can form emotional attachments to devices. This has implications for design and human-computer interaction.

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A robot sidles up to an elderly man in a wheelchair. “Hi John,” the robot says. “Ready for some exercise?” John keeps staring at the floor, so the robot takes a different tack. “How about a game of 21 ...

A robotics company has created a futuristic robot-head that is eerily similar to humans, with hope that it can be used in robot-related research, or even in the hospitality industry ...

Diligent Robotics co-founder Vivian Chu said her "minimum viable humanoid" robots are already helping hospital staff save ...

Amazon has deployed more than one million robots across its global fulfilment centres, marking a significant milestone as the company approaches a point where robots could outnumber human workers on ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

Doctors used to be the gold standard of job security. After all, you can't outsource a heart transplant to a chatbot... right? But according to Elon Musk, even the most elite surgeons might want to ...