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.

Humans may possess three levels of consciousness, and this concept could help scientists develop robots that are truly conscious, a new study suggests.

Ever wanted to build a robot? Trick question. Everybody wants to build a robot. Since the dawn of man, it’s been our mission to create untethered beauty and then immediately subjugate it to our ...

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