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 ...

Imagine for a moment that you're in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

An AI-driven robot successfully removed gallbladders from pig cadavers on its own. Here’s how they did it. (And surgeons shouldn’t put away their scalpels just yet.) ...