An empathy module analyzes facial cues, acoustic markers in speech and the content of speech itself to read human emotion and tell the robot how to respond.

Microsoft is bringing artificial intelligence to the masses, releasing a project that allows Minecraft programmers of any level to create their own human-like robot.

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.

Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they're machines that perform automatic tasks and can be ...

I think that the idea of empowerment does fill a niche. It keeps an agent from letting a human die, but once you’ve satisfied this very basic bottom line, it still has a continued drive to create ...

In both the consumer and industrial worlds, scientists are working to make robots more human like. But while there are some common goals—and even similar applications—the vision can be quite ...

Transfer Learning of Human Preferences for Proactive Robot Assistance in Assembly Tasks. Conference: HRI '23: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023 DOI: 10.1145 ...