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.

It led to behavior where it could take the lead or follow. For example, we also created a scenario where we had a laser barrier that would be harmful for the human, but not harmful for the robot. If ...

Human-sized robot taught itself to walk and balance, then strolled Berkeley's streets By Stephen Council, Tech Reporter Dec 19, 2023 ...

How to build a successful human-robot rescue team Though fiction often paints them as a threat to our safety, robots are increasingly helping to save our lives.

Building an empathy module is a matter of identifying those characteristics of human communication that machines can use to recognize emotion and then training algorithms to spot them.

A life-sized robot has learned to read notice boards and signs. But let's not get too jaded. What's important here is that the Penn team successfully added the capacity for reading comprehension ...

Engineers behind the working, life-sized Gundam in at the Gundam Factory in Yokohama reveal how they built the 25-ton, 60-foot-tall mech.

How AI can make robots fit for a human world Our podcast on science and technology. Why robots are suddenly getting smarter and more capable ...

Last year, the duo began to devise ways to use the robot for educational purposes and set to work creating a low-cost, customizable and “human-focused” module that could mirror some of the ...

The creators of Digit, a human-sized bipedal robot complete with "eyes," are bringing th e world's first humanoid robot factory to Oregon, creatively named RoboFab.