Politicians love to shake hands with their constituents. It’s basically half their job. But over the past two decades we’ve seen the rise of a surprising new constituency that they need to engage with ...

Robots are now so smart they can work out whether you're male or female and even what your personality is like from one handshake. Researchers are developing an 'emotional' humanoid robot that is ...

After getting some mini massagers for the fair sex from a discount sale fair, I started thinking about vibration/haptic motor projects again! I’m in the middle of a lot of projects based on small ...

But human-like thought (or its appearances) is only one aspect of the issue of robotic deception. There would be no need to test Blade Runner's replicants if they had been made of gleaming chrome, or ...