Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept to ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

A robot dog that talks back may sound like a novelty. In this case, it is meant to solve a practical problem: guide dogs can lead, but they cannot explain. That gap is what researchers at Binghamton ...

Guide dogs are incredible, but they can’t tell you “there’s a long corridor ahead with a door at the end.” Now researchers at SUNY Binghamton have cracked that code. Their robotic guide dog doesn’t ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine an intriguing twist to the usual ...

Toshiba has developed two technologies that will enable robots to interact with several people at once as well as follow them around without bumping into them. The company wants to sell robots that ...