Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are too far away to receive timely commands from Earth.

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

image: Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Jupiter are too far away to receive timely commands from Earth.

Infinite Craft is a browser-based sandbox game in which players combine various elements together to create new outcomes. These outcomes can be almost everything and anything you could imagine, from ...

Infinite Craft follows the simple formula of combining two words to make a third and takes it to the extreme. Any two words can be combined; the result is one word that’s the conceptual amalgamation ...

[Benjie Holson] is an experienced roboticist and wrote an interesting article published on IEEE Spectrum about how the idea most people have of non-roboticists is a myth, and efforts to target this ...

Better, faster artificial intelligence is fueling a rise in human-like robots for customer service at places like hotels and airports, especially in areas outside the U.S. But many robots still fail ...

Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ...

The chatbot waves its hand gently and speaks in a calming tone, quoting Bible verses and occasionally mispronouncing a word. Users ask questions, most of which are apparently intended to get the ...

The robots showcased at the ongoing World Robot Conference in Beijing are becoming increasingly smart with the help of artificial intelligence technologies, offering assistance in a range of fields ...

What if I told you that a robot can make you a cup of coffee just by watching a video of a human doing it? It's almost hard to believe, but it actually happened. Thanks to a breakthrough in artificial ...