A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading ...

Daniele Magistro receives funding from the EPSRC and NIHR. As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are ...

Part one: The long, hard road to today. The story of Prometheus ; The First Age: language and fire ; The Second Age: agriculture and cities ; The Third Age: writing and wheels ; The Fourth Age: robots ...

While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — they haven't really been a focus of research into how ...