If robots are ever going to work alongside humans more generally, they’ll need read our moods ...

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 ...

The life-size robot is billed as an emotional companion, employing both affective AI and encrypted memory storage.

Humans can "catch" fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings—by a team of psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of British Columbia—shed new light on how ...

iRobot cofounder Colin Angle unveils Familiar, a pet-inspired emotionally aware home robot designed to learn your routines ...

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Imagine sitting down at your desk and logging in for a performance review, with an AI system analyzing the conversation.

On the floor of the Ex-Robots factory in China’s northeastern coastal city of Dalian, engineers develop humanoid robots with a focus on enhancing facial expressions and emotions. Neck-length silicone ...

Mind Children, a Seattle startup, is developing Codey, a humanoid robot, for classrooms and elderly home care facilities.

Human-like robots don't need humanoid bodies. They just need to be expressive. (Well, they don't need to be, but they will be.) Pixar Animation Studios has an unusual logo. The basic logo is the word ...