Brian Horton makes a good point about the need for versatility within a single robot design, but there is no reason a specifically human form is needed for this. A quadruped with a many-armed torso, ...

Rowan Hooper’s musings on future robot pets brought to mind two things. The first was the Furby, an electronic “pet” developed in the late 90s. It could respond to a variety of inputs with changes to ...