A Connecticut library has acquired two fully-automated, walking, talking robots to provide independent assistance to its patrons. The robots, set to begin their duties at the Westport, Conn., library ...

There will be a new presence weaving its way among the Longmont Public Library bookshelves before the end of the year, if Jalali Hartman and his cadre of engineers have anything to say about it.

I guess I shouldn't have been too surprised to see a pair of robots when I walked into my local public library. The two robots—named Nancy and Vincent—look much like robots you'd see in the ...

At the University of Chicago’s new library, 70 students have summer jobs filling a chilly subterranean bunker 50 feet beneath the main reading room. Their mission: Load a million volumes into a ...

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Connecticut's Westport Library recently acquired two robots, Vincent and Nancy, that will be used to help teach coding and computer-programming skills. Photo: Danny Ghitis WESTPORT, Conn.—They have ...

They walk, perform tai chi, sit when they’re told, dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and speak 19 languages. At just 2 feet tall, these robots are also apparently the jealous type. Their eyes turn ...

If books are dying a slow death, libraries are also living on borrowed time. But that didn't stop the University of Chicago from sinking $81 million into the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which ...

Kate Berry, adult services supervisor with the Eugene Public Library, holds one of the robot cats, which were recently added to the library's Library of Things collection. Rachael McDonald / KLCC ...