If we had a nickel for every time an animated robot made us cry, The Wild Robot would give us 15 cents and a lot of tears. We've seen a giant robot learn to love in The Iron Giant. We've seen a small ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

For robots to move beyond warehouses and into homes, they’ll need to navigate using more than just vision. Most AI-powered robots today use cameras to understand their surroundings and learn new tasks ...

Robots might need to become more boring to be useful. We’ve all seen videos over the past few years demonstrating how agile humanoid robots have become, running and jumping with ease. We’re no longer ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

ADELPHI, Md. — Army researchers developed a novel computational model that allows robots to ask clarifying questions to Soldiers, enabling them to be more effective teammates in tactical environments.

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 ...

Man versus machine? If kids had to pick, humans might be out of luck. Children are more inclined to trust machines than adults and may, as a result, learn better from bots, according to recent ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Imagine walking downtown when you hear a loud bang coming from the construction site across the ...

AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers. A well-known example is ...