According to Ben Goertzel, AI researcher and entrepreneur who spoke at the Web Summit in Lisbon this week, intelligent robots in human-like forms will surpass human intelligence and help free the ...

But do we really need them and will they replace humans? Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction.

The little dinosaur robot blinks its big, blue eyes and stretches its neck. It tilts its head toward a human, who responds with a pat. The dinosaur closes its eyes in apparent contentment. But when it ...

Elon Musk is building a human-like robot: Does anyone else think this is a really bad idea? Yep, he's at it again. Apparently, launching a sports car into space wasn't enough.

Would you prefer your robot helper of the future to look like a machine, like a human or something in between? The answer, it turns out, likely depends on both how old you are and what task that ...

The R2-D2 robot from Star Wars doesn’t communicate in human language but is, nevertheless, capable of showing its intentions. For human-robot interaction, the robot does not have to be a true ...

A team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a robot that can learn via trial and error, much like how humans learn. It constitutes a pretty big step forward ...

Getting a bipedal robot to not fall on its face, much less walk, is a feat that no one has mastered. But roboticists are getting there.

It looks like science fiction’s vision of our robot future was right. As robots increasingly become a normal aspect of the workplace, working daily alongside us fragile, fleshy humans in ...

So will Almost Human eventually pull a Robopocalypse, Battlestar Galactica or Blade Runner and have the police ‘bots revolt? That seems like an obvious first season finale cliffhanger idea.

It looks like science fiction’s vision of our robot future was right. As robots increasingly become a normal aspect of the workplace, working daily alongside us fragile, fleshy humans in ...