Hospitals and senior living centers are leading the adoption of service robots that handle basic support tasks. Experts ...

Enter NEO, a humanoid robot created by 1X, an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California.

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

The bipedal bot, which has been a decade in development, stands at 66 inches and tips the scales at 66 pounds. It ...

Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among caregivers ...

Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her hip ...

The U.S. is about to face a reckoning when it comes to its 65-and-older population outnumbering children for the first time. But other nations — including Japan — are facing an even steeper ratio of ...

Researchers develop a model that can explain the effect of users’ ethical perception on their willingness to use care robots Countries like Japan are experiencing declining birth rates and an aging ...

The rapidly increasing aging population will lead to a shortage of care providers in the future. While robotic technologies are a potential alternative, their widespread use is limited by poor ...

The global population of people older than 65 years of age is rapidly increasing the need for care. Although care robots are a promising solution to fill in for caregivers, their social implementation ...