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.

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.

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine's Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks ...

This shows how robots could learn complex, human-like skills from a single demonstration—opening doors to safer, more ...

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 ...

I think that the idea of empowerment does fill a niche. It keeps an agent from letting a human die, but once you’ve satisfied this very basic bottom line, it still has a continued drive to create ...

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

Robots predict human intention for faster builds In a new paper, USC computer science researchers 'teach' robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks. Date: April 5, 2023 Source ...

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 ...

Humans may possess three levels of consciousness, and this concept could help scientists develop robots that are truly conscious, a new study suggests.