“With a robot with a high level of anthropomorphism, consumer empathy generates more negative responses and a lower level of satisfaction,” the report found. Instead, the researchers proposed designs ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

It’s little surprise, then, that The Information reports Tesla, which aimed to produce “thousands” of the robots by this ...

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders ...

Doctors used to be the gold standard of job security. After all, you can't outsource a heart transplant to a chatbot… right? But according to Elon Musk, even the most elite surgeons might want to ...

What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...

Elon Musk says the surgical scalpel is about to lose its top billing to algorithms and actuators, predicting "robots will surpass good human surgeons within a few years and the best human surgeons ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...