There is no shortage of sci-fi robot companions – Luke Skywalker’s robot buddies C3PO and R2D2 and Jimmy Neutron’s robot-dog Goddard come to mind. Astronauts aboard the International Space ...

“Then the robot knows, OK, if I want to make a smiley face, I should actuate these ‘muscles,’” Hu says. Next, the researchers played videos of humans making facial expressions.

His film Bad Robot promises, “Soon every house will have a robot helper. Don’t worry, your kids are perfectly safe.” But the red smiley robot eyes say murder!

Amazon recently began testing a new robot in its warehouse operations — meet Digit, a humanoid bipedal robot with a turquoise torso and smiley eyes.

Smiley wasn’t just made to sell candy, though. The robot is also gathering valuable data about customer interactions. It uses its sensors to watch how shoppers go about the store and interact ...

Smiley, happy robots. 11 January 2005 19 December 2015 (Display Name not set) Robots. Share. Not that we have a spare £3000 knocking around, but if we did chances are we’d invest the lot in an irobi ...

Excited about the impending delivery robot revolution? If so, you need to know about Starship Technologies, the company which kickstarted the whole thing. Founded by two of the original creators ...