San Francisco-based Figure has developed an AI humanoid robot that can walk, talk and Interact. It learned how to brew a pot of coffee by watching videos.

In both the consumer and industrial worlds, scientists are working to make robots more human like. But while there are some common goals—and even similar applications—the vision can be quite ...

An empathy module analyzes facial cues, acoustic markers in speech and the content of speech itself to read human emotion and tell the robot how to respond.

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.

The new algorithm could help robots make safer, smarter decisions around humans, even amidst the greatest uncertainties.

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

While our human teammates learn about us too, autonomous cars, robots and other systems typically don’t have the capacity to “sense” how we operate, or determine what a person may be ...

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 ...

Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they're machines that perform automatic tasks and can be ...