What if I told you that a robot can make you a cup of coffee just by watching a video of a human doing it? It's almost hard to believe, but it actually happened. Thanks to a breakthrough in artificial ...

Elon Musk, whose electric automaker Tesla is building its own humanoid called Optimus, has said that the robots will be “the ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

1 3-D camera A ton (give or take) of computer code 1 Ikea Stefan chair Step 1: Assemble human-like robot arms Our nimble fingers and hand-eye coordination make us masters of a wide variety of tasks.

I think that the idea of empowerment does fill a niche. It keeps an agent from letting a human die, but once you’ve satisfied this very basic bottom line, it still has a continued drive to create ...

An empathy module analyzes facial cues, acoustic markers in speech and the content of speech itself to read human emotion and tell the robot how to respond.

In both the consumer and industrial worlds, scientists are working to make robots more human like. But while there are some common goals—and even similar applications—the vision can be quite ...

A new National Science Foundation project led by Oregon State University aims to build and distribute 50 standardized robots throughout the research community.

The team behind this robot comedian is trying to make robots more likable.

Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.