Kim and their colleagues carried out a series of experiments involving the social robot Jibo, which was co-developed by a ...

Apple is far from being the first company to explore home robotics. But efforts to make the sci-fi trope of a robotic home butler a reality have largely fallen short for two big r ...

In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world’s most advanced consumer robots awaits command. “Wake up, Jibo,” says Cynthia ...

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versus these niche robots that only vacuum or only clean your gutter.” In Breazeal’s mind, Jibo was indeed that platform, and recently endorsed by Time Magazine as the best innovation of 2017. However ...

It wasn't so long ago we thought of household robots as a thing of the distant future - something we'd probably never live to see. But it's happening and it's happening now.

Credit: Mashable Barbie enlisted Cynthia Breazeal, associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT and founder of the social robot company Jibo, Inc., to ensure that the doll and her ...