Building an empathy module is a matter of identifying those characteristics of human communication that machines can use to recognize emotion and then training algorithms to spot them.

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.

It led to behavior where it could take the lead or follow. For example, we also created a scenario where we had a laser barrier that would be harmful for the human, but not harmful for the robot. If ...

While Tesla will constantly promote ever more advanced versions of Optimus, the humanoid robot it's working on—at least ...

Ex-Robots Chief Executive Li Boyang says humanoid robots are the most complex type of robot to build. The company uses artificial intelligence to teach robots how to recognize human facial ...

Computer science researchers aim to teach robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks, so they can one day help out on everything from building a satellite to setting a table.