In a way, MIRAI gives a robot human-like skills. The AI-enabled vision software from Micropsi can adjust a robot’s movements in real time to enable it to pick up and manipulate items with varying ...

IF THE CANON of science-fiction cinema is in broad agreement on one thing, it is that a robot is supposed to look like a human being. It is not only casting directors and special-effects ...

But if you’re working with, say, a robotic personal banker, or a robotic chess partner, you’ll prefer the robot with human-like qualities, since humans excel in decision-making and sociability.

A new National Science Foundation project led by Oregon State University aims to build and distribute 50 standardized robots throughout the research community.

The robot chef, which has already been trained to make omelettes based on a human taster's feedback, tasted nine different variations of a simple dish of scrambled eggs and tomatoes at three ...

These robots are almost human. In 2015, Nadine, a humanoid robot, had a conversation with her creator, Professor Nadia Feldman, in Singapore.

The lab’s main page explains: the “Ability to generate intelligent and generalizable facial expressions is essential for building human-like social robots.

soft robot that can move around without human or computer input. The research team has announced that soft robots that look like pasta also have the ability to clear obstacles and move forward. In ...

But seeing an android, a robot that looks human, can make some people uneasy. That growing unsettling feeling or phenomenon as robots begin to look more like human beings is called the "uncanny ...

The little dinosaur robot blinks its big, blue eyes and stretches its neck. It tilts its head toward a human, who responds with a pat. The dinosaur closes its eyes in apparent contentment. But when it ...