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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI robot powered by LLMs hilariously mimics Robin Williams in office experiment, highlighting current challenges in embodied artificial intelligence.

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 ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in this newsletter about my visit to Figure AI, a California startup that has developed a humanoid robot. Billions of dollars are currently pouring into the robotics ...

In a whimsical experiment reminiscent of science fiction, Andon Labs has taken a bold step into the realm of artificial intelligence by assigning a large language model (LLM) to control a robot vacuum ...

"Robot Chicken" creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are launching an online reality experiment in which viewers decide every major decision a person makes for six weeks. In "ControlTV," a ...

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 ...

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 ...