A study comparing how adults and children respond to tasks set by robots showed the incredible power of technology over young people. It might sound like a prologue to a dystopian novel, but new ...

Mirror campaign to raise vital funds for Lifelites and ‘Unwrap the Magic of Christmas’ will help thousands of children to ...

We don't know why, but this made us a little bit sad. Must be The Fear. A study took place in Osaka, Japan to determine how socially-interactive robots are treated by children in an open, public place ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes part of everyday life, it is also finding a role in health care. At a children’s hospital in the US state of Massachusetts, a therapeutic robot named Robin ...

It could revolutionise care in Ireland, with space for parents, electronic patient records and a roof garden. Kim Bielenberg talks to the ­consultants, architects and tech experts planning the new ...

STEVENAGE, England - Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old autistic girl began playing with a robot that ...

A robot has been developed that can create ‘children’ robots, improving on each one as it walks off into the distance. The mother constructs the baby bots and tests them for effectiveness. After ...

STEVENAGE, England: Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old autistic girl began playing with a robot that ...

With the world as we know it shrunk to 2km, there is no better time to take a journey with a book. Twelve-year-old Orla Perry, the offbeat heroine of CJ Haslam's Orla and the Serpent's Curse (Walker ...