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 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.

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 ...

1 3-D camera A ton (give or take) of computer code 1 Ikea Stefan chair Step 1: Assemble human-like robot arms Our nimble fingers and hand-eye coordination make us masters of a wide variety of tasks.

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.

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 ...

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.

Horses are supremely intelligent, employ largely non-verbal communication, and have served humans for close to 10,000 years -- all highly attractive traits that we seek in robot behavior.

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

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 ...