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 ...

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 ...

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

The robots are coming, but instead of replacing our jobs or taking over the world, they’re helping with the housework (shout out to the best robot vacuums). And now they’re grabbing a bucket, sponge ...

Japan is brimming with signs of an approaching medical revolution. Shiny white robots are tending dishes of cells, rows of incubators hum in new facilities, and a deluxe, plush-carpeted hospital ...

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.