Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among ...

If a robot is caring for an older adult or helping children in a classroom, understanding how close it should get—and how that proximity affects the sense of safety and ease—is crucial.

Even when the robots proved unreliable, children preferred them to reliable adults. But that preference might only last for so long: Older children were likelier to trust humans when a robot was ...

The temi personal assistant robot, which operates almost like a Siri or Alexa on wheels and takes commands as it follows a user around can cost about $4,000.

Realbotix offers robots designed to look like humans in three options: A bust starting at $10,000; a modular robot for $150,000; and a full-body version for $175,000.

Beyond companionship, AnAn functions as a personal assistant, equipped with core memory and reminders, particularly benefiting seniors who require assistance and emotional connection.

Hover drones, see-through TV’s and personal robots – the tech we’ve been waiting for Tech writer Jennifer Jolly shares latest from CES, including local company XReal with AR Smart Glasses. # ...

Robots, however, aren't like phones in the sense that people these days need them in their lives. Apple is apparently worried about whether people would pay "top dollar" for the robots it has in ...

Three new employees at the Cobb County Sheriff's Office are making a sizable first impression. The DEKA robots — nicknamed "jailbots" — stand nearly six feet tall and weigh almost 300 pounds ...

Personal robot. This Robot Will Keep Your Grandparents Company When You’re Too Busy. ElliQ will tell an older adult to take their medicine, or go for a walk, or call their loved ones.

Three DEKA robots are part of a 90 day pilot program in Cobb County. They could do surveillance, head counts, threat detection and more. To stream 11Alive on your phone, you need the 11Alive app.

Robot operating systems occasionally crash, but most afternoons, so do I. My point being that in a head-to-mother-board analysis of traits a resident might value, robots could beat people, or at ...