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.

How to Build a Robot Octopus Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot ...

Baymax, the lovable robot in the new Disney movie, was inspired by inflatable robots being developed at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Engineers from the University of California San Diego have created a new way to make soft, flexible 3D-printed robots that don't require special equipment and only take minutes to build. The ...

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.

For robot training, the AI uses the actions it has been taught to randomly generate potential new movements, which are then refined into useful actions that can deal with new environments.

A recent report by The Information suggests that OpenAI has internally discussed developing its own line of humanoid robots.

The machine learning technique that taught notorious text generator GPT-3 to write can also help robots make sense of spoken commands.

Get detailed with mapping and zone cleaning A big component of how proficiently a robot vacuum does its job is how intimately it knows your living space.