When filmmakers slipped a robot crab into a real crab aggregation, they expected curiosity. What they captured instead was a startling display of cooperation and vulnerability that one voice on the ...

For a while, as part of a research project on care robots in Sweden, I had Paro the seal in my house. I had borrowed Paro from a roboticist colleague, and the seal had a longer-than-planned layover ...

Furry like real ones, endearing and incredibly comforting, robot pets are slowly but surely finding their way into homes. These little creatures, with batteries instead of hearts and AI hidden beneath ...