When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that ...

Globally, there's a good deal of interest in the studies of the diverse nature of human-nonhuman animal (animal) relationships. Anthrozoologists, conservation psychologists, people working in the ...

September 15, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers received a grant worth more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand robot theater, an after-school program that helps children ...

Drawing on interviews with Israeli sex workers, the research highlights the social and emotional dimensions of sexual labor that machines cannot replicate. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...