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We already know that we have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize robots. But beyond just projecting human qualities onto them, as we begin to share more and more spaces, social and private, what kind of relationships ...
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We’re just now beginning to truly see the the first ‘real’ robots enter the home, from Roombas to toys to companions to… well, much more. How are humans beginning to forge relationships with these...
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Yoky Matsuoka’s first foray into robotics wasn’t within the confines of an academic lab, where she once constructed one of the most life-like mechanical hands ever conceived, but on a tennis court many years ago. A r...
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In 2003, Kurt Dresner showed up late to a meeting he had with his advisor, Peter Stone, the director of the Learning Agents Research Group at the University of Texas at Austin. Dresner had been sitting idly at a red ligh...