Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shor ...

The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

Astra, a 4-foot-tall silver cyborg, is still in training, and her gig at Astra Vascular so far includes waving at customers, ...

The study's findings hint at a future where robots aren't just teaching tools but could act as emotional buffers for children ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading ...

Ten teams from schools around the area challenged each other in a coding competition – to see who can program an AI robot.

Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The parents of a young boy who got knocked down and run over by a security robot at Stanford Shopping Center want to get the word out to prevent others from getting hurt. They ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A young boy was knocked down and run over by a security robot in Palo Alto, according to his parents. The parents of 16-month-old Harwin Cheng said the boy had a frightening ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...