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 ...

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 ...

There are things that are exclusively something that you'd say "only in Japan" which is reflected in my headline, where today I saw Reuters sharing a video of "Pedia_Roid": a lifelike child-looking ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new 50-pound lifelike "child" robot is being used to train pediatric dentists. Dr. Gary Cash is a dentist based in Austin who specializes in dental aesthetics and restorative ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KTVU) - Two security robots at Stanford Shopping Center are docked Wednesday following what the manufacturer is calling a "freak accident" involving a toddler. Knightscope, the ...

Researchers believe that children are more willing to share personal information to robots than to humans. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Westfield Researchers from Cambridge University believe that ...

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The following is an excerpt from The New Breed: What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Robots by Kate Darling. The Huggable is a soft, fully animated blue teddy bear with a green ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: How should a dentist react if a child does this.....this...or this? This humanoid robot ...