My Special Aflac Duck and Paro seal are among a new wave of robots that straddle the line between a therapy animal and a friend.

Robots are here to take over our world, and instead of making them look scary and imposing, you know, like you'd expect from a device that's threatening our way of life, designers are making them ...

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 ...

It wouldn’t be CES season without at least a couple of offbeat robots showing up. Yukai Engineering, the maker of the Qoobo robotic cat tail pillow, has revealed a soft robot that nibbles on a user’s ...

We’ve seen our share of deceptively cute robots over the years, but nothing comes close to the grapefruit-sized ball Japan has floating around in space. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. SlothBot is a slow-moving and energy-efficient robot that can linger in the trees to monitor animals, plants, and the environment below, ...

Ready, set, go! A robot called mCLARI designed by engineers at CU Boulder poses next to a spider. (Credit: Heiko Kabutz) The question may be the 21st century’s version of the fable of the tortoise and ...

French company Enchanted Tools reckons their machines will help in hospitals, hotels, restaurants and anywhere with objects that need moving - Copyright AFP BAY ...

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