It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program Computer scientist Peter Burke has ...

How far, and for how long, a robot can navigate depends on how much power it consumes over time. Robot navigation systems are ...

Machines have come a long way in seeing and understanding images, but they still don’t see quite like humans do. A new ...

The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize ...

Weighing in at about 78 pounds, humanoid robots showcased their human-like combat skills inside in the boxing ring at China's ...

Locational Encoding with Neuromorphic Systems (LENS) is set to transform how autonomous robots operate. At its core, LENS is inspired by the most efficient navigation system we know: the human brain.

Scientists even have a name for the queasy feeling: the "uncanny valley". A team at the Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa have shown how a robot's gaze can trick us into thinking we ...

A six-foot-tall, 300-pound Valkyrie robot is seen at University of Massachusetts-Lowell's robotics center in Lowell, Mass. "Val," one of four sister robots built by NASA, could be the vanguard for ...

As the global population ages and the prevalence of chronic diseases continues to rise, traditional rehabilitation methods increasingly fall short in ...

Creating artificial minds In his 2012 book, How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil said the neocortex of the human brain contains 300 million pattern processors that are responsible for human thought.