New research provides evidence that humans can physically absorb fear from a robot through the sensation of touch alone. The ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

The idea of human-like robots is a dominant one in science fiction, but this real robot is pushing boundaries, defying the ...

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

Despite all the dystopian science fiction literature and films in which machines have taken over the world and dehumanized ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

Industry 5.0 marks a shift from purely automation driven manufacturing toward human-centric, resilient, and intelligent production systems. In this ...

Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

Humanoid robots are no longer just performing. They are interacting, responding, and in some cases, making decisions on their ...

Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mark Yim has completed the second phase of a human-robot interaction research project at Penn’s ModLab. The project primarily aims to develop Quori, a ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...