Meet Pepper, a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts to their moods using its voice, arm and hand gestures, and changes in eye color to express itself. Pepper also ...

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Pepper is a robot receptionist working at a hospital in Belgium. It can speak 19 languages and was brought in to improve social and health care. It was designed by company Zora Bots and costs £ ...

One breakthrough comes from scientists at Westlake University in China, who have developed a biodegradable soft robot made from pig gelatin and cotton-derived cellulose. Unlike traditional robots ...

An origami-inspired robot arm made with material from cotton plants and pigs biodegrades when no longer needed. Such a soft robot could be further developed to carry out medical procedures inside ...