Béhar is behind the robot's form and interaction design, for which he focused on creating a machine that would be accessible and look unthreatening. "We wanted to design Cobalt to represent a ...

Critics of autonomous vehicles' safety and reliability have various valid points, but no one's going to be afraid of these 6-wheeled little robots. And besides, they bear pizza, coffee and donuts ...

Made popular by its seemingly unthreatening nature, cute’s quest for world domination suggests there is more to the phenomenon than its charming exterior might imply. How cuteness has taken over ...

And yet there is really no way to render yourself unthreatening enough to prevent that 911 call. At the same time, you are expected to act grateful for being “allowed” to be here at all (see ...

You wouldn't think it to look at them, but some species of giant whale sneak up on their tiny prey. A recent study by scientists at Stanford University has found that the humpback whale, which ...

In the end, the only reason why such micronations are tolerated must lie in their unthreatening, idiosyncratic nature. Their ineffectualness is what saves them from destruction and prevents their ...

Asimo was a research project (image) and public relations triumph, touring the world putnting on stilted but unthreatening displays of servo-powered agility, from dad dancing to light football skills ...

An interesting piece suggests that Apple’s AI logo* – along with the new Siri icon – is intended to look friendly, unthreatening, and is deliberately non-anthropomorphic. *Yeah, that could ...