Artificial intelligence is increasingly creative and individualistic, while humans are aspiring to up their physical and ...

How emotion research is pulling robots out of the uncanny valley and into our lives Emotions may make the uncanny valley a little less deep.

When robots work safely with humans, they can provide clear benefits. Industries facing labor shortages, such as elder care, could see relief. Physically demanding jobs might also become safer for ...

When robots have a human-like appearance, they can better simulate human emotional expressions, allowing them to resonate ...

Experience the most innovative and surprising technology unveiled at CES 2025, including AI companions and household robots that redefine our digital future.

Pepper (SoftBank Robotics) can recognise faces and basic human emotions, making it ideal for roles in retail and hospitality. ASIMO (Honda) - one of the most famous humanoid robots, ASIMO can walk, ...

Doing so not only entertains it, but the show helps it understand what it thinks motivates human behavior. This becomes a problem when those emotions, as they tend to be, are represented in a near ...

Imagine for a moment that you're in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine's Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks ...

Today's robots increasingly appear human. Yet just because something appears human doesn't mean that it is. But what is it, then, that distinguishes us from mechanized, digital replicas?