According to the statement, researchers at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) have created two dialog agents with a new capability — the ability to negotiate. The experiment’s goal was to show that these dialog agents with differing goals can manage ...

Jingdong, or JD.com, China’s second-biggest e-commerce company after Alibaba, sent robots to deliver items for the first time yesterday (June 18), on the last day of a two-week-long shopping bonanza that recorded sales of around $17.6 billion, according to a ...

In every sci-fi depiction of an eventual robot apocalypse, the mechanical monstrosities move with cold, calculated precision, dispatching or enslaving humanity with a complete lack of sympathy and no second guessing. But what if robots could actually worry? What if ...

The robot’s ability to reliably walk across different types of surfaces is unique, and so is the fact that its elaborately shaped legs were created with a 3D printer, according to the engineers who developed the bio-inspired creature, Joinfo.com reports ...

Christened FEDOR – Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research – designers claim the futuristic sharpshooter would initially be deployed during search and rescue missions, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Star. “FEDOR was designed as an android able to replace humans ...

Disney Enterprises Inc. announced it has filed a U.S. patent for a 3D printed, interactive, soft robot, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Fox News. The application describes the new “soft body” robot to be built specifically for “physical interaction with ...

Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move, Joinfo.com reports with reference to U.S. News. Toyota said it saw ...

The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu ...

Robots have begun to play an increasing role in life and death scenarios, from rescue missions to complex surgical procedures. But the question of trust has largely been a one-way street. Should we trust robots with our lives? According to ...

The physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, says a ‘world government’ could be our only hope, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Mail Online. He says our ‘logic and reason’ could be the ...

You know those deep feelings of resentment you have towards your parents for the countless hours they made you practice the piano? Arpeggio, a piano-playing robot that could easily perform at Carnegie Hall, is the over-achieving childhood musician your parents secretly always ...

Scientists will eventually be creating part-human, part-robot test subjects. That’s what a pair of biomedical researchers at the University of Oxford are hoping to do, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Futurism. In a report published in Science Robotics, Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr ...

If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized wrenches, you’d probably pause and ask, “which one?” Robotics researchers from Brown University have now developed an algorithm that lets robots ask for clarification ...

Now the head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that the company’s robots were not able to get close enough to the core area, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Mail Online. Robots have to ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor,” Joinfo.com reports with reference to Fox news. The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and can ...