WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe other animals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now ...

Cartwheel Robotics has unveiled its latest innovation, Yogi, a humanoid robot designed to foster genuine human connections in domestic settings. Announced on October 17, 2025, Yogi aims to seamlessly ...

At 19, Teddy Warner has already tried a lot of things. He worked in a fabrication lab in his home state of North Carolina, studied at the University of Southern California for a year before dropping ...

STEVENAGE, England - Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old autistic girl began playing with a robot that ...

LONDON, UK — Scientists in Italy are working to create a robot that can detect all kinds of emotions. The robot is called Abel, and it is learning to smile, snarl, and frown. Twenty motors under his ...

Could you be friends with a robot?