John Bell is Director of the CEPSE /COE Design Studio and professor of educational technology in the educational psychology and educational technology PhD program at Michigan State University. His ...

A Danish company that's cultivated a strategy of acquiring proofed technology in order to strategically diversify across the service robotics industry has acquired all assets and rights to Beam, a ...

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A researcher has created a life-size humanoid telepresence robot on a drone platform, which allows users a virtual flight experience and an opportunity to interact with people at remote locations. A ...

Silicon Valley startup Anybots is entering the increasingly competitive field “telepresence robot” market today with the release of its first robot. Telepresence robots work as stand-ins for people ...

For those with severe motor disabilities, mind-controlled prostheses have long offered a sliver of hope that they might one day be able to regain some semblance of autonomy. While we've seen numerous ...

Disney Research has come up with a glockenspiel-playing robot that can indulge in balloon toss ... when it isn't safely picking up fresh eggs. The telepresence robot uses a new type of hydrostatic ...

A student interacts with Waldo Library's telepresence robot. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A telepresence robot is interacting with patrons of Western Michigan University's Waldo Library. The robot figuratively ...

Earlier this year, MIT and the world lost the brilliant mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, author and “father” of artificial intelligence — the legendary Dr. Marvin Minsky. Among his myriad ...

Over the past century, American schools have integrated an ever-more-diverse group of students. Racial integration is most prominent, but it’s not just Native Americans, blacks and Latinos who have ...

In February, designer Philipp Plein got some ink by including a person wearing a robot costume in his New York Fashion Week runway show. Now another designer, Los Angeles-based Honee, will trot out ...