Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. “Luca, ...

Kids at a nursery school in Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo have had the chance to play with a friendly robot while it measured their development. The device is programmed to offer around 300 kinds of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ash Brannon and Chris Buck’s Academy Award-nominated animated mockumentary feature Surf’s Up is set for the small screen treatment. Thunderbird Entertainment Group’s Atomic Cartoons is ...

A new face is lighting up hospitals and nursing homes across the country. It’s an animated, cartoonish persona displayed on a digital screen roughly the size of an iPad, mounted on top of a robotic ...

This year, my household went from having two small dogs who hardly shed to five dogs. Between the dirt their paws track in after going outside, the fur the larger three shed, and the occasional turf ...

Devindra has been writing about the way technology intersects with our lives for nearly 20 years. He started the Amherst Student's first technology column, worked in IT support for many (many) years, ...