Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

In one campus laboratory, electrical engineering doctoral student Karthik Subramanian adds facial recognition and heart rate bio-signals into the mind of a 9-foot-tall robot. In another workshop, ...

“Murderbot,” a sci-fi comedy about a binge-watching killing machine, introduces TV’s latest fascinating cyberbeing for an age of A.I. angst. The title characters of, clockwise from top left, ...

The AI-mpersonation is complete. The dystopian lessons in every sci-fi movie from “Terminator” to “Ex Machina” appear to be coming true. Artificial intelligence has become so sophisticated that bots ...