The Baka RoboCup 2007 is a robot competition in Japan, but not one to see what robot can kick a soccer ball the best or drive the fastest. No, it’s a competition to see which robot is the most ...

Humans and robots have long worked together in factories. But how do they really feel about each other? The robots, you might think, feel nothing. That’s why they’re so useful. But a researcher at ...

Turns out the Terminator's dry sense of humor was pretty spot on. Turns out the Terminator's dry sense of humor was pretty spot on. At the INTETAIN Conference, hosted by Columbia College, Christopher ...

Robots in the "kid-size" (really around 16 inches tall) Robocup soccer league face off. These "Rhoban" bots, built by students at the University of Bordeaux, took first place in their division in the ...

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No matter how hard the tech industry tries to humanize robots, actual humans are still reluctant to warm up to the machines. Two studies report that when asked to assess the social skills of robots, ...

Artificial intelligence will never get the context of jokes like humans do, and thus machines, in themselves, have no real need for humor. Pixabay/Tumisu Humor is like an opposable thumb; it’s what ...

OK, so maybe he was mixing his "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" references. But when President Barack Obama spoke of getting congressional leaders into a "Jedi mind meld" back in 2013, eight years after ...

OK, so maybe he was mixing his “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” references. But when President Barack Obama spoke of getting congressional leaders into a “Jedi mind meld” back in 2013, eight years after ...