So how will us non-techies communicate with our robots? Researchers at Georgia Tech's Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM) are trying to help create an easy-to-use human-robot ...

How Do You Make A Robot That People Will Talk To? Make It As Cute As Wall-E Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adorableness rather than artificial intelligence to meet its goals.

Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is designed to let kids build and design robots. The set has 949 pieces, including a color sensor, distance sensor, four motors, and Lego’s Bluetooth ...

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.

Researchers from the Takanishi Laboratory at Waseda University in Japan have created an anthropomorphic talking robot, the WT-4, capable of producing Japanese vowels that sound more like human ...

A professor of computer science is teaching robots to understand instructions in natural language from various speakers, account for missing information, and adapt to the environment at hand.

Teaching robots how to handle the complex ways that humans communicate will make them better at dealing with our requests – or asking for help ...