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 ...

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Waterloo's Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Lab (SIRRL) has found that people prefer interacting with robots they perceive to have ...

There is no avoiding robots. With increasing autonomy, satellites span the skies; vacuums vroom underfoot; and bots conduct surgery, deliver packages and explore the solar system. Robot expert Sooyeon ...

Researchers strive to improve robots’ functionality by enabling full-body engagement and addressing current limitations in their interactions. To this extent, a team at Brigham Young University (BYU) ...

Better and better blobs The researchers began to refine their jumping robot by sampling 500 potential designs using an initial embedding vector—a numerical representation that captures high-level ...