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

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 ...

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.

Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they're machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated by humans, but sometimes work autonomously—without human help.

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 ...

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.

Robeauté’s microrobot, which is the size of a grain of rice, could change the way doctors treat brain tumors and neurological conditions and make procedures safer.

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.

Love must really “byte” for a tech geek who paid tens of thousands of dollars to build a realistic robot replica of actress Scarlett Johansson — which is programed to giggle, wink and flirt ...