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Abstract: Understanding human intention plays a crucial role in the research of human-robot interaction (HRI) for service robots. Although multimodal sensing methods have shown promising results in ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel way for Robot-Robot-Human interaction in a shared workspace for collaborative tasks and uses a multi-modal means of communication that includes hand gestures, ...

The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

IBM, Rochester Public Schools and Rochester Community and Technical College collaborated to host the seventeenth annual IBM LEGO Education Outreach competition on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, at the ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Lego Fortnite Odyssey is getting a Ninjago-themed makeover on Thursday, and for the very first time Epic Games will offer Fortnite versions of Lego ...

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots still need plenty of help from a human teleoperator who’s hidden from view. During a flashy event on a Hollywood movie studio lot in October 2024, for instance, an army ...

A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific ...

When Xpeng unveiled its Next Gen Iron humanoid recently, the robot glided across the stage with movement so fluid that the crowd froze. Many viewers thought they saw an actor in a suit. Clips spread ...

EV maker Tesla has shared a new update of its humanoid robot Optimus on X (formerly Twitter) on December 3. The short clip shared by the official Tesla Optimus account and Elon Musk, showing Optimus ...