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 ...

Once upon a time, not too long ago, robots had not yet been trained to answer customer phone calls. But, alas, they learned, too well: to serve their owners, and to cleverly torment the humans they ...

A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.

Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept to ...

Tesla put on a big show at its Robotaxi event on Thursday night. But nothing was more eyebrow-raising than its Optimus robots: the slim, sleek, AI-powered humanoids that are supposedly capable of ...

Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can answer questions like an ancient Greek philosopher. The robot has a metal mask with 3D-printed moving eyes, LED lights behind its mouth, ...

Leo Chen, Director of U.S. Operations for Engineered Arts, has a conversation with an Ameca robot at the U.S. Engineered Arts offices in Redwood City on Jan. 21, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. In ...