This pilot study is part of ongoing work in socially assistive robotics under Matarić at The Interaction Lab, part of the USC Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RASC), the USC Robotics ...

These robots, part of the Heriot-Watt University's National Robotarium Socially Assistive Robots in Gerontological Healthcare (SPRING) project, were designed to perform routine tasks and interact ...

Socially assistive robots seem especially promising during the pandemic, says a cognitive scientist. “In general, I don’t think the public is very aware of what these robots can do to improve ...

The socially assistive component of the lab is motivated by a need for therapy robots that help people not through physical touch (like a physical therapist), but through social communication (like a ...

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Ohio State University’s College of Nursing recently received a $3.13 million grant to develop and deploy socially-assistive robots in long ...

A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are developing artificial intelligence (AI) and socially assistive robots to detect urinary tract infections (UTIs ...

Tega is a new platform, developed at MIT, for research in socially assistive robotics. The Tega design expands on MIT's past work with squash-and-stretch style robots like Dragonbot but introduces ...

Matarić is among a handful of academics in the socially assistive field aiming to commercialize their knowledge of human-robot interactions, including Cynthia Breazeal, an associate professor of ...

DU’s school of engineering and graduate school of professional psychology is studying if socially assistive robotics can improve range of motion, mindful-attention skills, and general wellbeing ...

The aim of the subfield of social robotics called socially assistive robotics is to interact with ever more diverse groups of people. Its practitioners’ noble intention is “to create machines ...

A new study suggests that robots could be the future of child counselors. Researchers from Cambridge University believe that children are more willing to share personal information with robots ...

A team of researchers from Ohio State University’s College of Nursing and Vanderbilt University recently received a $3.13 million grant to develop and deploy socially-assistive robots in long ...