Sentient robots have been a staple of science fiction for decades, raising tantalizing ethical questions and shining light on ...

Scan the code and get 10 percent off.” Happenstance gives it a reason to stay on the island. When it accidentally crushes a ...

Taylor Higgins, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has co-authored an ...

Researchers have developed a new scale to measure how human-like robots appear, identifying four key qualities: appearance, emotional capacity, social intelligence, and self-understanding.

Only one autonomous humanoid robot actually has a job. Like a real, 9-to-5, paying gig. And that’s Digit by Agility Robotics, says CEO Peggy Johnson.

This method allows the robot to learn from the collective experience of numerous skilled surgeons, potentially surpassing the capabilities of any single human operator. The researchers developed ...

Robin Williams' 1999 movie Bicentennial Man was trashed by critics and the public upon its initial release, but is it a sci-fi classic ripe for re-evaluation?

said researchers are uncovering the exact nature of human-robot relationships, and the notion of machines as friends is not so farfetched. SPOT is being tested to detect safety and structural ...