For adults, Mebo will be just as fun to play around with, and I can even see him being a decent way of keeping an eye on your pets while out of the house.

Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners—like therapy horses who respond to human emotion—say University of Bristol researchers.

To gauge how willing people might be to have a robot perform these kinds of more interactive tasks, Drs. Neta Ezer (now at Futron Corporation), Arthur D. Fisk, and Wendy A. Rogers sent a ...

Optimus Primes is the world’s first auto-converting robot that “transforms” into a truck, and that’s also interactive, voice-activated, and programmable.

In the future, socially interactive robots could help seniors age in place or assist residents of long-term care facilities with their activities of daily living. But will people actually accept ...

The happiest place on Earth just took a major robotic turn. The folks over at Disney filed a new patent to add interactive, controller-operated robots to their list of future inventions. And it ...