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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Human-robot interaction suggests there’ll likely be many contexts where robots don’t displace workers but rather makes the role of humans even more valuable.

Humanoid robots move by walking on two legs and using robotic arms to manipulate objects. Their motion relies on balance, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has a synthetic uterus, fake amniotic fluid, and a plastic umbilical cord. And if its creators are right, it might deliver ...

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.) ...