The trash talk in the study was decidedly mild, with utterances like, “I have to say you are a terrible player,” and “Over the course of the game your playing has become confused.” Even so, people who ...

Trash talk can make even the most confident among us lose their chill. Recent research underscores just how powerful these fighting words can be. A study presented at a conference on Robot & Human ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

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Toshiba Corp. has developed two technologies that will enable robots to interact with several people at once as well as follow them around without bumping into them. The company wants to commercialize ...

(CNN) --Talking robots that interact with older people could be introduced into care homes to help fight loneliness and mental ill health. Pepper, a "culturally competent robot," was tested on care ...

Talking robots that interact with older people could be introduced into care homes to help fight loneliness and mental ill health. Pepper, a “culturally competent robot,” was tested on care home ...