Dentsu has just increased its bet on the potential of social robotics. The company has invested $3 million in a U.S. firm called Jibo Inc., which is developing a talking, emotive, multitasking and ...

Cynthia Breazeal, an MIT professor and one of the pioneers of social robotics, has unveiled "the world's first family robot." Called Jibo, the all-white desktop-sitting robot has more than a passing ...

Sometimes in the Internet of Things, the death of a product can be long-lived. For example, when Microsoft discontinued its fitness tracker the Microsoft Band a couple of years ago, the thing would ...

Over the past decades, researchers have developed a wide range of advanced social and assistance robots that could soon be introduced into households worldwide. Understanding how the introduction of ...