Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept to ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Yoshihiro Nakata from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering at the ...

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 ...

EU researchers are testing a robot that can have basic conversations in busy surroundings, with the idea of assisting people arriving at hospitals. A hospital in central Paris has had an unexpected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ameca, a humanoid robot, made an appearance at the San Mateo County Fair on Saturday. Ameca's abilities include facial expressions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday marks the first day of the San Mateo County Fair, which opens with eating contests, carnival rides and concerts. Gym Class ...

Walking, talking humanoid robots that were once firmly the domain of science fiction are on their way. In fact, a Morgan Stanley report recently predicted that 13 million human robots will be among us ...

Text generated by artificial intelligence often has a particular vibe that gives it away as machine-generated, but it has become harder to pick out those idiosyncrasies as the tech has improved. We ...