Once upon a time, not too long ago, robots had not yet been trained to answer customer phone calls. But, alas, they learned, too well: to serve their owners, and to cleverly torment the humans they ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

Tesla put on a big show at its Robotaxi event on Thursday night. But nothing was more eyebrow-raising than its Optimus robots: the slim, sleek, AI-powered humanoids that are supposedly capable of ...

Boston Dynamics has taken its already very promising robot dog, Spot, and given it a voice. The company shared on its blog that engineers working with Spot trained an AI model that integrated ChatGPT ...

But, despite those gaffs, robotics firms pressed on and now several believe their walking machines could work alongside human manufacturing workers in only a few short years. Figure, one of the more ...

Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can answer questions like an ancient Greek philosopher. The robot has a metal mask with 3D-printed moving eyes, LED lights behind its mouth, ...

The walking, talking Optimus robots that stole the show during Elon Musk’s splashy “Cybercab” event in Hollywood last week were operated in part through remote control by humans, according to a report ...

Yes, I am talking to you robots, whose companies hire you, to supposedly guide me through a telephone tree to get to a live person to make an appointment or get some information. Hiring robots helps ...