One big problem in robotics and AI is that they are very good at performing the exact tasks they are trained for, and very bad at dealing with anything novel or unusual. If you take a robot out of ...

Never mind the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the threat of a robot apocalypse, sooner or later we could be living in a world with a virtual KISS. And those AI-generated avatars that were launched ...

teaching the robot how to mirror that emotion. These interactions were recorded and fed into an AI system that analyzed every movement and response. Disney Research explains it best: "Our model ...

And who can blame them? On November 7, a painting of the mathematician Alan Turing by an AI-powered robot called Ai-Da sold at auction for a cool $1,084,000 (around £865,000). That's a more ...

The robot, known as Ai-Da, created the painting of renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing entitled “AI God” with its own hydraulically powered hands. Ai-Da is also outfitted ...

I don’t share that worry, but this $16,000 humanoid AI robot made me realize I can’t wait for AI to take my job at home. I’m talking about a home robot that could do all the chores I ...

“Companion” is not the only film that paints AI in a semipositive light, though. Here are five others that treat their robot characters with a more sympathetic hand. Writer-director Alex ...