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.

It led to behavior where it could take the lead or follow. For example, we also created a scenario where we had a laser barrier that would be harmful for the human, but not harmful for the robot. If ...

Building an empathy module is a matter of identifying those characteristics of human communication that machines can use to recognize emotion and then training algorithms to spot them.

The robot spotted in Berkeley is headless, blind and taught itself how to walk.

How to Build a Robot Octopus Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot ...

How to build a successful human-robot rescue team Though fiction often paints them as a threat to our safety, robots are increasingly helping to save our lives.

A life-sized robot has learned to read notice boards and signs. But let's not get too jaded. What's important here is that the Penn team successfully added the capacity for reading comprehension ...

The creators of Digit, a human-sized bipedal robot complete with "eyes," are bringing th e world's first humanoid robot factory to Oregon, creatively named RoboFab.

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.

Engineers behind the working, life-sized Gundam in at the Gundam Factory in Yokohama reveal how they built the 25-ton, 60-foot-tall mech.