The little dinosaur robot blinks its big, blue eyes and stretches its neck. It tilts its head toward a human, who responds with a pat. The dinosaur closes its eyes in apparent contentment. But when it ...

Recent research, however, suggests some people actually prefer certain robots to look like, well, robots. The determining factor is largely the job the robot was built to perform.

The actual Rex board is shorter than a deck of cards, so it’ll fit on odd-size robots yet has connections for a slew of weird, fun stuff–like sensors, servos, microphones, and even ...

At first glance, Jibo looks a bit like Wall-E’s robot girlfriend. Both Jibo, a real robot, and Wall-E’s girlfriend, the fictional Pixar character, have the look of a futuristic Apple product ...

Thom: But if there’s a kind of retro look to the robot, then I can certainly imagine a movie being made next year where it would be appropriate to go back to servo motors. Rosin: Right.

As scary as it all might sound, a robot revolution doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. Like the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, by having machines take over human ...

For example, for help in making decisions (like investing), younger people preferred a face with an in-between human/robot look. The study also found that for a robot that could help with personal ...