According to Ben Goertzel, AI researcher and entrepreneur who spoke at the Web Summit in Lisbon this week, intelligent robots in human-like forms will surpass human intelligence and help free the ...

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence (AI) craze has sparked another wave ...

The little dinosaur robot blinks its big, blue eyes and stretches its neck. It tilts its head toward a human, who responds with a pat. The dinosaur closes its eyes in apparent contentment. But when it ...

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders ...

Would you prefer your robot helper of the future to look like a machine, like a human or something in between? The answer, it turns out, likely depends on both how old you are and what task that robot ...

A new study say it’s easier for people to work alongside robots if they look a little like us. It looks like science ...

These robots are almost human. In 2015, Nadine, a humanoid robot, had a conversation with her creator, Professor Nadia Feldman, in Singapore. In 2021, a video of Ameca, a remarkably human-like android ...

The R2-D2 robot from Star Wars doesn’t communicate in human language but is, nevertheless, capable of showing its intentions. For human-robot interaction, the robot does not have to be a true ...

Editor's note: This is part of our series HardWIRED: Welcome to the Robotic Future, in which we explore the fascinating machines transforming society. Roboticists are getting there, though. Take, for ...

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed algorithms that allow robots to learn by making mistakes -- just like a real person. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and ...

Human actors playing robots/cyborgs/androids in TV shows and movies. We’ve seen it — the jerky movements, the quizzical head tilts, the blank expressions. “I think we’ve all seen the robot that longs ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...