LOS ANGELES - August 28, 2014: This week, a team of researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering will share results from a pilot study on the effects of using humanoid robots to help ...

People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on ...

French hospital trials 'socially assistive' robots to support the elderly. The Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris in France recently welcomed a group of "socially assistive" robots to alleviate the ...

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Ohio State University’s College of Nursing recently received a $3.13 million grant to develop and deploy socially-assistive robots in long-term ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Socially assistive robots seem especially promising during the pandemic, says a cognitive scientist. “In general, I don’t think the ...

A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are developing artificial intelligence (AI) and socially assistive robots to detect urinary tract infections (UTIs) ...

Tega is a new platform, developed at MIT, for research in socially assistive robotics. The Tega design expands on MIT's past work with squash-and-stretch style robots like Dragonbot but introduces new ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Human Touch: Scientist Maja Mataric. Robots don’t have feelings, but they might be able to help with yours. That’s the thesis of Pasadena’s Embodied Inc., a startup co-founded by USC computer science ...

Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn the attention of researchers and generated headlines.

A team of researchers from Ohio State University’s College of Nursing and Vanderbilt University recently received a $3.13 million grant to develop and deploy socially-assistive robots in long-term ...