An Orion Star robot sits waiting for patrons to interact with it, Wednesday at John & Judy Gay Library in McKinney. Last week the Library introduced Orion Star robots to the public to lead patrons ...

The Eugene Public Library has more than just books on its shelves. In a recent trend — common to all public libraries — patrons have been borrowing everything from cake pans to board games and sewing ...

Robots can help build cars, they can vacuum your floor, they can even engage in galactic war . . . well, maybe eventually they can do that. But can you check one out at a local library? Not yet, but ...

I guess I shouldn't have been too surprised to see a pair of robots when I walked into my local public library. The two robots—named Nancy and Vincent—look much like robots you'd see in the ...

There will be a new presence weaving its way among the Longmont Public Library bookshelves before the end of the year, if Jalali Hartman and his cadre of engineers have anything to say about it.

They walk, perform tai chi, sit when they’re told, dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and speak 19 languages. At just 2 feet tall, these robots are also apparently the jealous type. Their eyes turn ...

Connecticut's Westport Library recently acquired two robots, Vincent and Nancy, that will be used to help teach coding and computer-programming skills. Photo: Danny Ghitis WESTPORT, Conn.—They have ...

A little robot at a library in Helsinki went from reviled to beloved, all because it got a new pair of plastic eyes. Addressing the complexity of human-robot interaction was the goal of the designers ...

What if a robotic teaching assistant could help lighten a teacher’s workload? New research has answered just that question and reports that teachers were able to train a robot teaching aid to be ...