I’ve never met a panda face-to-face before, but apparently they can be quite aggressive. But not the robot panda that Taiwan’s Center for Intelligent Robot Research is building. It will be friendly, ...

Kids don’t need to read a manual or learn controls to play with Robopanda, because Robopanda starts talking out of the box. “Touch my head to play a game.” “Touch my belly to hear a joke.” “Touch my ...