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 ...

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.

But these problems also arise in social robots, which have physical bodies modeled on nonthreatening versions of humans or animals and are designed to interact with people.

This is the amusing moment a robot faced off with an elderly man in a game of Chinese chess. Footage shows the pensioner, 90, ...

But these problems also arise in social robots, which have physical bodies modeled on nonthreatening versions of humans or animals and are designed to interact with people. The aim of the subfield of ...

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

Cockroach energy. The question of “who can run better, animals or robots?” is complicated because running itself is complicated. In previous research, Jayaram and his colleagues at Harvard University ...