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.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

Artificial Intelligence How to Build a More Sustainable Robot To meet climate goals, the search is on to create robots made out of recycled, biodegradable and replaceable parts ...

Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics — constraints on the behavior of androids and automatons meant to ensure the safety of humans — were also famously incomplete. The laws, which first ...

Elon Musk said Thursday night at Tesla’s AI Day that the company is building a humanoid robot, and will probably have a prototype next year. “It’s basically going to start dealing with work ...

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to design microscale swimming robots from materials such as liquid crystal ...

Even in the distant future, it would be mindbogglingly difficult for humans to build intelligent, self-healing, bipedal robots like the Rev-9 from Terminator: Dark Fate, the T-1000 from Terminator ...

“We need to flip the script and use technology as part of the solution and the new system for how we build skills.” Beane has spent more than a decade examining work involving intelligent machines, ...

Apple uses anthropomorphic robots as opposed to humanoid robots, with sensing hardware and software at the core. Samsung has taken a similar approach with its smart home robot, Ballie.

Ever wanted to build a robot? Trick question. Everybody wants to build a robot. Since the dawn of man, it’s been our mission to create untethered beauty and then immediately subjugate it to our ...

Behind the scenes with the creators of Syfy’s "Robot Combat League" and its eight-foot, rock-em, sock-em warriors.