Class 12 student Aditya Kumar creates Sophie, a Hindi-speaking robot that helps students learn without a teacher, showcasing ...

The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they polite to them, and willing to attribute human-like qualities to them?

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 ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities, however, haven't focused on this much — though one study recently found that neurotic ...