The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

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Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

Starting with a Fanuc S-420 i W industrial robot built in 1997, [Excessive Overkill] painstakingly taught his own personal robot how to make S’Mores.

Baymax, the lovable robot in the new Disney movie, was inspired by inflatable robots being developed at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Engineers from the University of California San Diego have created a new way to make soft, flexible 3D-printed robots that don't require special equipment and only take minutes to build. The ...

For robot training, the AI uses the actions it has been taught to randomly generate potential new movements, which are then refined into useful actions that can deal with new environments.

The issues he’s highlighting really come down to product design. [Benjie] points out that programming robots is super hard, but it’s also hard in more than one way and for more than one reason.