Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners—like therapy horses who respond to human ...

Researchers in the UK have designed a new groundbreaking type of social robot that mimics therapy horses and helps people regulate emotions, making a huge step forward in the pursuit of better mental ...

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

“This changes our concept ... aquatic animal that lived some 450 million years ago. Carmel Majidi, a mechanical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, was already building robots in the ...

Its protagonist is the stranded robot, Rozzum 7134, who forms relationships with the animals on the island—and, most important, develops maternal love for an orphaned bird. At its core ...

Most of these efforts use animal tissue in ... for a simpler proof-of-concept experiment. Translating a signal into motion for the rolling and starfish-shaped robots presented its own challenges.

This robot is still very much a concept for now, however. Kawasaki representatives suggested it may be launched by 2050, but they have not announced any solid development timeline, and there are ...

But more importantly, they both involve robots making life-altering friendships with animals. The beauty is that they approach these friendships in different ways. In The Wild Robot, the animals ...