Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It discourages exhausted new parents from murdering their screaming infants, it makes bloggers into millionaires, and it may be more effective ...

Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of the highway? In a study published April 21st in the ...

Talking to yourself has a bad reputation, but it doesn’t always mean you’re going mad. Studies show that thinking out loud can help you manage your emotions and complete tricky tasks — and it isn’t ...

Update July 14, 2011: much better video now available (please see below). We’re one step closer to the Robocalypse: a research team at Japan’s Kagawa University has developed a robot that’s able to ...

In the next 10 to 15 years personal robots may become as ubiquitous as dishwashers. And it is likely that we’ll want to program them to do specific things related to our personal household—things that ...

A pet robot that communicates with humans only by touch is being used to probe the way the oft-neglected sense bolsters our emotional relationships. The findings could be used to make humans’ ...

Robots are becoming more capable of performing tasks like humans — we're even sending them to assist astronauts in space — but when it comes to speaking like humans, that's a major challenge. We don't ...