In the next 10 to 15 years personal robots may become as ubiquitous as dishwashers. And it is likely that we’ll want to program them to do specific things related to our personal household—things that ...

Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It discourages exhausted new parents from murdering their screaming infants, it makes bloggers into millionaires, and it may be more effective ...

When creating relationships with people, humans are wired to look for personality—a bond that we can discover and relate to. We want to understand the other person and be understood in return. Given ...

A new demo gives an early look at how OpenAI’s ChatGPT tech can power humanoid robots, giving them the ability to have full conversations with humans. The demo comes from the startup Figure, which is ...

Watch This Humanoid Robot Talk and Complete Tasks Thanks to OpenAI Tech The startup Figure shows off how its partnership with OpenAI promises to make the company's humanoid robots capable of having ...

When you give two robots the ability to communicate in real-time, the possibilities for their teamwork are vast. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have done just that: enabled two types of ...

When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him. Tell Me Dave is a large, vaguely humanoid bot that can cook simple meals according to spoken instructions.

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide variety ...

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 ...