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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The robot spotted in Berkeley is headless, blind and taught itself how to walk.

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 ...

We’re not yet capable of building humanoid robots that are indistinguishable from biological humans, but that doesn’t mean we’re not trying. Here are 10 real robots that are helping us ...