In the previous parts of this blog series, I have described some possible applications of robotics to our life to make it more comfortable and safe; furthermore, this part describes an application ...

WHAT is the self? Rene Descartes encapsulated one idea of it in the 1600s when he wrote: “I think, therefore I am”. He saw his self as a constant, the essence of his being, on which his ...

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 ...

In the previous part of this blog series, i-Robot: A new approach to robotics to make our life easier and safer, Part 6, I described robots that can assist people that are not self-sufficient. There ...