X Technologies has released NEO, a humanoid robot that can tidy, talk, and tackle chores. This brings the sci-fi dream of a ...

SINGAPORE--Sick of playing inane games on your mobile phone? Now, you can hold inane SMS conversations with a non-person instead. And just when you think that SMS has exhausted all of its functions, a ...

I got a glimpse into the future world of our robot overlords today. It was nervy at times. I watched two robots go on stage at a tech event to “debate” the future of humanity with each other. The ...

Driving can sometimes be a solitary affair, heading from place to place with only the road and the radio for company, but that could change with Kirobo Mini. It’s a small robot developed by Toyota ...

Join us on Wednesday, September 29 at noon Pacific for the Robot Dogs Hack Chat with Afreez Gan! Thanks to the efforts of a couple of large companies, many devoted hobbyists, and some dystopian ...

Quite a few people are amused by Microsoft’s new Bing chat robot because it has obsessively fallen in “love” with a reporter. Not me, though: I’m concerned. Not only has the machine named itself ...

Pal and Chum look a little bit like first-graders on wheels, chatting up a storm and racing around the room. For Hitachi, Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, they are the next generation of ...

Microsoft unveiled its chatbot Xiaoice — which translates to “little Bing” — Wednesday on the heels of Google’s controversial rollout of a similar tool earlier this month. Microsoft has already tested ...

In a specially-designed classroom near Southwark station in London, 20 robot students are hard at work. They chat to each other in a language inspired by morse code before their robot teacher settles ...

When it comes to training robots, you could grab a joystick or carefully program movements in code. The better way, though, is to move the robot yourself, and have the robot play back all those ...