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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

So overall, the older group preferred human robots, while the younger group preferred robot-robots (and the younger group was more evenly distributed with their choices).

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

Engineers 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 using that measurement to tell robots ...