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Dr. Angelica Lim, an associate professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University, leads a team that is trying to make ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.

When bots—automated agents that perform tasks on behalf of humans—become more active in online communities, it has profound effects on how humans interact with each other on those platforms. Bots ...