Since its debut in 2005, Robot Chicken's trademark satirical humor has taken aim at some of the world's most famous IPs. Throughout its 20-year existence, the show has undergone several changes to its ...

Everyone finds Robots funny; they have always played the straight man oblivious to any joke played at their expense. Now The New Yorker and Microsoft are attempting to teach a robot to be ...

A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them. Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider: Humor ...

Artificial intelligence will never get the context of jokes like humans do, and thus machines, in themselves, have no real need for humor. Pixabay/Tumisu Humor is like an opposable thumb; it’s what ...

A robot comic is more funny when it has good timing. Standup comedian Jon the Robot likes to tell his audiences that he does lots of auditions but has a hard time getting bookings. "They always think ...

A wisecracking cleaning robot is being rolled out to hospital wards in a bid to 'put a smile on patients' faces' and help in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. Autonomous bot Ella, built by ...

Robots designed to have a sense of humour may struggle to understand when and what makes things funny - and this could even lead them to kill, one expert warns. The inability of artificially ...