Two darkly amusing graphic novels for kids pit machine learning and rocket science against good old-fashioned humanity.

If a robot is lying to someone, there could be an acceptable reason for it. There are lots of philosophical debates in research about the ways robots should fit in with society’s social norms.

This study, they write, is the first to use both a human speaker and a robot to see if children deem social affiliation and similarity more important than competency when choosing which source to ...

Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work if they look right, study suggests Physical appearance of robots affects how people interact with them, researchers say Nina Massey ...