The most urgent question for people is not whether machines will take their jobs, but how machines will change the way they behave in society.
A soft actuator using electrically controllable membranes could pave the way for machines that are no danger to humans.
Something nicknamed "the cyborg olympics" may sound right at home in a science-fiction yarn, but this is real, and it has everything to do with advancing research to help those with physical disabilities.
System could help prevent robots from overwhelming human teammates with information.
Artificial intelligence researchers have turned to literature to try to teach ethics to machines.
It’s easy to look at your smartphone and think you live in the future. But the past’s imagining of the future promised us a lot more robot butlers.
In the relentless torrent of high technology news that rushes past each day, it can be easy to miss the good stuff. For example, the debut of a cleverly designed exoskeleton that helps paraplegics walk again — and that the average person can actually afford.
How you look at a robot and how it looks at you can make you more comfortable
