Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are developing software that would enable a robot assistant to help on construction sites. Based on the ...

Summit is taking place in China’s Tianjin, with leaders from over 20 countries in attendance. At the event, a humanoid robot providing multilingual support and guiding journalists has drawn attention.

Scientists are good at being curious, but sometimes exploring different scientific questions can be time-consuming and tedious. To help lighten the load, scientists have designed a curious robot ...

Hyundai Motor Group is testing its first robot assistant at a dealership in Korea, and more are likely coming.

UCSF offers unique opportunities for medical students to gain certification to assist in robotic surgery as part of extensive ...

We've all read for years that mobile assistant robots would help us to take over repetitive and boring work. Surprisingly, there are very few robots able to do this. This is why the German ...

What if a robotic teaching assistant could help lighten a teacher’s workload? New research has answered just that question and reports that teachers were able to train a robot teaching aid to be ...

Apple is looking to robotics to solve the limitations of today's mobile devices. But don't expect Rosey the robot to clean your dishes just yet.

Whether it’s a matter of price or functionality, robotic assistants have never really caught on. The Roomba is a genuine cultural movement, but no such luck for little bots with serious brains ...

Siri, the artificial personal assistant for iOS devices, may have some competition from a new Japanese robot developed by Okamura Corporation. At least, that's what we might be saying if not for ...