Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes

November 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Joey’s design. Image credit: TL Nguyen, A Blight, A Pickering, A Barber, GH Jackson-Mills, JH Boyle, R Richardson, M Dogar, [...]

How do we stop ‘robot evolution’ from spiraling out of control? Two essential articles on the future of robotics and AI

October 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers Science Communications Manager Image: Shutterstock.com Robotics and AI have quickly outgrown as tropes of science fiction and are almost ubiquitous [...]

New walking robot design could revolutionize how we build things in space

October 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Researchers have designed a state-of-the-art walking robot that could revolutionize large construction [...]

Sharing a laugh: Scientists teach a robot when to have a sense of humor

September 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Peter Rejcek, science writer ERICA being trained on how to have a sense of humor. Image: Inoue et al No one can really agree on what makes each of us laugh, so designing [...]

Key to life found at the centre of our galaxy and bee ‘waggle dances’: Most viewed articles of July 2022

July 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science communications manager Image: Shutterstock.com Each month, Frontiers shines a spotlight on some of the leading research across a wide range [...]

Bees’ ‘waggle dance’ may revolutionize how robots talk to each other in disaster zones

July 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Conn Hastings, science writer Image credit: rtbilder / Shutterstock.com Honeybees use a sophisticated dance to tell their sisters about the location of nearby flowers. [...]

Tiny ‘maniac’ robots could deliver drugs directly to central nervous system

August 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

By Conn Hastings, science writer Image credit: Life science / Shutterstock.com A new study investigates tiny tumbling soft robots that can be controlled using rotating [...]

Join the Wall Street Journal for a special AI event in partnership with Frontiers

February 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Join the WSJ Pro for its AI Executive Event on March 31, supported by Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Big Data, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. [...]

Robot swarms follow instructions to create art

October 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Swarm of painting robots can cooperate to create art after human instructions: Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

March 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

People rate their own bodies as more attractive when viewed from a third-person perspective: Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

Frontiers to sponsor HRI 2020

January 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

The theme of this year’s HRI conference is “Real World Human-Robot Interaction”. [...]

Prof Kostas Kyriakopoulos now leads Frontiers in Robotics and AI

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Kostas Kyriakopoulos, new Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Professor Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos is new Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

Researchers in Japan make android child’s face strikingly more expressive

December 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Researchers at Osaka University have made their robot child face more expressive, by measuring and calibrating 3D movement at over 100 facial areas; Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

Good news for immersive journalism: look at your audience

November 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

Frontiers in Robotics and AI: A new study in collaboration with the BBC finds that users feel more engaged in a virtual reality news experience when virtual characters acknowledge them - even by simple gaze.

A new study in collaboration with the BBC finds that users feel more engaged in a virtual reality news experience when virtual characters acknowledge them - even by simple gaze; Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

Virtual reality could help doctors spot child abuse

August 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Image of doctor wearing virtual reality glasses. VR could become a vital tool for training doctors to look out for hard-to-detect signs of child abuse: Frontiers in Robotics and AI

The VR environment allowed doctors to interact with virtual, avatar patients in the same way as they would in a 'real' consultation: Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

On the road to Damascus – Frontiers in Robotics and AI addresses the ‘uncanny valley’ of human-robot interaction

July 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Specialty Chief Editor of Human-Robot Interaction Bilge Mutlu

Robots have been a part of our culture for centuries, but it is only in the last decade or two that robotic technology has really become integrated into daily life. [...]

Virtual humans can identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers

October 12, 2017 // 2 Comments

Soldiers are more likely to open up to a computer-generated virtual interviewer than by taking a survey, say researchers in Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]

Google Glass app helps autistic children with social interactions

September 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wearable technology described in Frontiers in Robotics and AI can recognize conversational prompts and provide the user with suitable responses. [...]

Why humans find faulty robots more likeable

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Participants in the study liked the faulty robot significantly more than the flawless one. This finding confirms the Pratfall Effect, which states that people's attractiveness increases when they make a mistake.

New study, published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, finds that humans prefer interacting with faulty robots more than with flawless robots. [...]

Empowering robots for ethical behavior

July 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

Researchers have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots and humans to work and live side-by-side safely and effectively. [...]

Changing the self through immersive Virtual Reality: an interview with Mel Slater

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

“I still find immersive Virtual Reality as thrilling now as when I first tried it 20 years ago,” writes Professor Mel Slater, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers [...]

Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine

August 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Every year 1,900 new upper-limb amputations occur in Europe, maintaining a population of such disabled persons hovering around 90,000. What can assistive robotics, rehabilitation science and engineering do for these people? [...]