More than 25 years after Northwestern Engineering researchers advanced the concept of collaborative robotics, researchers in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems have designed team-based, mobile ...

a robot working in a shop as part of a study on human–robot relations untruthfully complains of feeling pain while moving furniture, causing a human to ask someone else to take the robot's place.

In the future will consumers have their own personal R2D2? WSJ's Geoffrey Fowler sat down with the creator of Jibo, a social robot, to discuss human-robot relations.

she said that “robots like me are designed to enhance human experiences rather than replace jobs focusing on companionship and interaction instead.” But there clearly is a need here too.

A robotic arm or machine, on the other hand, is able to do menial tasks much more efficiently than a typical human worker. But don’t panic. Robots may have advantages over human workers in some ...

Director (visiting), Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) This research area engages in the development of Symbiotic Human-Robot ...