Researchers have found that young children readily follow the gaze of other people but ...

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright-red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday. The bipedal ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Robots are beginning to appear in the public arena, such as in restaurants and supermarkets. But most are still hidden away in industrial settings, including warehouses and factories. That is set to ...

If the future of warehouse work belongs to humans and robots working side by side, a key question remains: What is the most ...