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.

“Human literacy” is the ability to engage others, think creatively, and be entrepreneurial. “Even in the robot age – or perhaps, especially in the robot age – what matters is other ...

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 ...

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

The team behind this robot comedian is trying to make robots more likable.

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 ...

Better, faster artificial intelligence is fueling a rise in human-like robots for customer service at places like hotels and airports, especially in areas outside the U.S. But many robots still ...

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.

Engineered Arts in the UK is a small company, but it makes the world’s uncanniest robots: machines with realistic facial expressions that make you wonder what it means it be human. Its latest ...

Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and ...