A robot does not need to feel emotions for a person to become emotionally attached to it. That is one of the clearest lessons ...

Artificial intelligence has made remarkable advances in recent years. Robots can navigate warehouses, vacuum homes, deliver supplies through hospitals, and answer customer questions in retail settings ...

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Sydney Jackson on Jun 23, 2026 at 8:27 am June 23, 2026 at 8:31 am A prototype of Codey, a humanoid social robot developed by ...

A six-week Japanese study found that encouragement from both a human partner and the social robot RoBoHoN was linked to ...

The robot, named Codey, was developed by Mind Children and is designed as a social robot rather than a labor robot. Company ...

Acquisition of 30% equity interest and exclusive technology access strengthens GMEX’s Terminal + Brain (Intelligence) platform; consideration mix shift to more equity with 24-month lockup aligns ...

Researchers from the University of Twente, MST and Politecnico di Milano conducted a pilot study to explore whether a GPT-controlled social robot can support patients with medical information in a ...

Social robotics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the design, implementation and evaluation of robots that engage humans through social behaviours, often encompassing speech, gesture, ...

EU researchers are testing a robot that can have basic conversations in busy surroundings, with the idea of assisting people arriving at hospitals. A hospital in central Paris has had an unexpected ...