The lab robots — adapted, lidar-guided [light detection and ranging] industrial units made by Kuka of Germany — move slowly between automated benchtop reactors and analytical equipment, carrying out ...

As robots and other intelligent machines grow smarter and more capable, some experts worry about the day when their intelligence surpasses ours. But even without such “superintelligence,” robots are ...

TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

U.S. Army modernization officials are about to finish the service's first experiment to see whether the Robotic Combat Vehicle effort can make units more deadly on the future battlefield. For the past ...

If a little humanoid robot begged you to not shut it off, would you show compassion? In an experiment designed to investigate how people treat robots when they act like humans, many participants ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in this newsletter about my visit to Figure AI, a California startup that has developed a humanoid robot. Billions of dollars are currently pouring into the robotics ...

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using... No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans ...

Do robots have sexist and racist tendencies? LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 04: Ai-Da Robot, an ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, looks towards Aidan Meller during a press call at The British Library on ...

People have always had very strong interest in not dying. Survival of the fittest, and all. It’s in our nature. But what if we could go one step further? What if we could not only prolong life, or ...

A small, humanoid robot will be flown to the International Space Station this summer to take part in the first experiment on conversation in space between a human and a robot. The effort could speed ...

U.S. Army modernization officials are about to finish the service's first experiment to see whether the Robotic Combat Vehicle effort can make units more deadly on the future battlefield. For the past ...