TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

A nthropic conducted an internal study examining how its AI model Claude affects human performance in real-world robotics tasks. The one-day experiment included two teams of software engineers, tasked ...

If a little humanoid robot begged you to not shut it off, would you show compassion? In an experiment designed to investigate how people treat robots when they act like humans, many participants ...

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using... No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans ...

U.S. Army modernization officials are about to finish the service's first experiment to see whether the Robotic Combat Vehicle effort can make units more deadly on the future battlefield. For the past ...

People have always had very strong interest in not dying. Survival of the fittest, and all. It’s in our nature. But what if we could go one step further? What if we could not only prolong life, or ...

Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked ...

Russia unveiled a new AI robot, but the experiment didn’t go so well, and some critics are treating the incident as a metaphor for Putin’s Russia. Adding to the hilarity, the robot was introduced to ...

A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot ...

Do robots have sexist and racist tendencies? LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 04: Ai-Da Robot, an ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, looks towards Aidan Meller during a press call at The British Library on ...