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.

A new algorithm has been designed to enable robots to make safer decisions around humans. In a factory setting, robots and ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new National Science Foundation project led by Oregon State University aims to build and distribute 50 standardized robots throughout the research community.

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