Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.

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A high-profile robotics expert thinks Elon Musk's AI ambitions are a pipe dream, according to Fortune. Rodney Brooks was the co-founder of iRobot, the creator of the home robot vacuum Roomba. He ...

Diligent Robotics, maker of an autonomous robot assistant for hospitals, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The raise was headed by True Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures, as well as Next Coast ...

Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot company backed by Nvidia and Uber, is expanding into a new category with its latest acquisition: healthcare. Los Angeles-based Serve Robotics announced ...

Samsung has announced the release of an AI-powered robot designed to serve as a personal assistant for the home. The three-wheeled Ballie bot features a built-in projector, speaker and microphone, as ...

Anyone with a smartphone has probably grown accustomed to talking to automated assistants like Siri and Alexa. But Samsung's new personal assistant will do more than just listen — it will follow you ...

Researchers at Purdue University are developing robots designed to interact with humans in socially ...

UNC researchers are training an AI robot named "Fetch" to think, map spaces and work with humans. Robots can mow lawns and clean houses, but the real frontier is teaching them to think. At UNC-Chapel ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...