Features/Specs. Easy to use and simple to setup, Mebo is a fun and interactive robot for kids 8 and older (and adult-sized kids). Essentially, Mebo is a large, 5-axis controlled claw attached to ...

To gauge how willing people might be to have a robot perform these kinds of more interactive tasks, ... (2009, October 16). Older Adults Want Robots That Do More Than Vacuum, Researchers Find.

Optimus Primes is the world’s first auto-converting robot that “transforms” into a truck, and that’s also interactive, voice-activated, and programmable.

Elderly adults have a new best friend: robots. ... A robot named GATSBII — for GATech Service Bot with Interactive Intelligence — delivers medication to Mr. Bolet on a fall day in September 2011.

Paro, a socially interactive robot developed in Japan, is coming to American shores, turning up in a handful of nursing homes and causing a stir in a way that fake baby seals rarely do.

A robot dog made by Sony has been marketed as a companion for older adults. “We need to help with loneliness,” said Tommy Deblieck, the co-chief executive of ZoraBots.

But Boyle said he is working to build a robot that costs about $300. "As common as the conversation is about stigma and mental health these days, there are still a lot of people who just won't ...

Some of these robots are already being developed. Consider Pepper, a 4-foot-tall interactive robot able to recognize human emotional states by analyzing voice tone, facial expressions, and other ...