Care issues and costs associated with an increasing elderly population are becoming a major concern for many countries. The use of assistive robots in “smart-home” environments has been suggested as a ...

Two second grade teachers in the Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District were awarded a grant to purchase robots for their classrooms.

We present a three-level cognitive system in a learning by demonstration context. The system allows for learning and transfer on the sensorimotor level as well as the planning level. The fundamentally ...

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (ITT) in Genoa have achieved a world first. The team completed its first test flight with the iCub3 robot. The jet-powered humanoid was ...

In computer simulations, Penn researchers show that simple rules can guide robot swarms to build like insects — with no central plan. This approach could lay the groundwork for more ...

Robots could be the solution to filling the shortage of welders in the U.K., thanks to existing human expertise, a new study from the University of Nottingham has revealed.