LYON, France, Sept 7 (Reuters Life!) - Robots that can make their own decisions have so far been confined to science fiction movies, but a child-sized figure with big eyes and a white face is trying ...

ICub robot, a “hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, moves his arms during a demonstration at the INSERM institute in Bron, near Lyon, southeastern ...

When humans realize that they are being watched by someone, they become a little nervous and conscious of whether they are looking at an animal or a human being. A new study shows that even when ...

ICub est l un des robots les plus avancés du monde. Capable de faire bouger sa tête, ses yeux ainsi que tous les membres de son corps, un Tunisien, Mehdi Khamassi, contribue à son «humanisation». ICub ...

Sheffield Robotics is home to an upper-body iCub 2.0 robot (with head, arms, hands, and torso). The robot is particularly suited to research into human cognition and development, and robot learning.

One of the robotics projects that I’ve been most excited about for years now is iRonCub, from Daniele Pucci’s Artificial and ...

A robot designed to learn like a child, is getting a new set of legs and smaller hands. The iCub is the result of a European collaborative project studying human development. Professor Darwin Caldwell ...

Icub 3 est un petit gabarit : une taille équivalente à un enfant de 4 ans et un poids-plume de 42 kg. Même s’il n’a pas l’agilité d’Atlas, ses talents se situent ailleurs. Il est doté de 54 points ...

ïde iCub à l’Inserm, à Bron, le 1er juillet 2009 (Photo : Fred Dufour) [01/07/2009 15:41:53] BRON, Rhône (AFP) Le robot humanoïde iCub, aux capacités d’un enfant de trois ans et demi, a été présenté ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have demonstrated that under specific conditions, humans can treat robots as co-authors of the results of their ...