AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

Video games have played an important role in the development of AI. Many early demonstrations of machine learning involved teaching computers to play games. Eventually, Google Deepmind’s mastery of ...

A pair of computer science and neuroscience students at Northeastern University gave the phrase “playing like a robot” new meaning. Second-year students Nikhil Mukraj and Jacob Shechter recently ...

A former Tesla engineer left the electric automaker's humanoid robotics team to co-found a startup operating in Palo Alto, California, and Shenzhen, China. The engineer, Shuo Yang, was part of the ...

The stage play “After the Blast” has some interesting characters, but arguably the most intriguing is Arthur. He won’t astonish the audience with his stature, standing at 2-foot-4, but even with such ...

I tend to approach robot videos with a mild air of defeat and scepticism, in no small part because a lot of hype has been generated over what has turned out to be just choreographed movements in the ...