Why are Nao, Pepper and iCub, robots used in schools and museums, clad with shiny, white plastic?

The Dawn Avatar Robot Café in Tokyo, Japan is filled full of friendly looking, shiny white robots that whizz around the floor and are controlled by humans from their home ...

Why are Nao , Pepper and iCub , robots used in schools and museums, clad with shiny, white plastic?

To say that things have been a little tense between the United States and her neighbors to the north, Canada, would be a ...

Why robots tend to be white Given the diversity of people they will be exposed to, why does Kaspar, designed to interact with children with autism, have rubber skin that resembles a white person’s?

The robot uses two-way water spraying and drying using a flannel layer, it provides continuous, high-quality and quiet work on the way to a perfect result of shiny surfaces.

Naturally, the local critters are not best pleased with the sudden arrival of a big shiny white robot and Roz is not quite accorded the same greeting as C-3PO received from the Ewoks in Return of ...

A crowd dressed in neon yellow vests and shiny white hard hats stamped with American flags looked on as small crews installed solar panels using the three-piece system that includes two panel ...

Tesla's process update video of its humanoid robot Optimus, or Tesla Bot, showed that it is now 30% faster and 22 pounds lighter than the last version.

The anti-corporate story centers on a company that would rather make shiny new robots and leave the clunky, rusted ones broken and obsolete.

Humanoid robots tend to be white or resemble white people. Here’s why this is a problem and what social scientists, designers and engineers can do about it.