A video of a "Bosstown Dynamics" robot, a parody of the robotics company Boston Dynamics, fighting back after being bullied went viral over the weekend. The video is a lighthearted parody by a ...

When it comes to naming your Roomba, or any other brand of robot vacuum, keep in mind that you'll probably be saying this name out loud in front of guests in your home or on the phone with support.

Tesla recently unveiled its latest futuristic products — the Robotaxi, Robovan, and the Tesla Bot, and it feels like something straight out of a movie. The internet said, "Bet," and they did what they ...

Siri has all the right answers and then some. Robots have no trouble tackling straight forward questions, but the more esoteric or punnier queries can trip them up because, well, they're not human.

OK, so maybe he was mixing his “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” references. But when President Barack Obama spoke of getting congressional leaders into a “Jedi mind meld” back in 2013, eight years after ...

Artificial intelligence will never get the context of jokes like humans do, and thus machines, in themselves, have no real need for humor. Pixabay/Tumisu Humor is like an opposable thumb; it’s what ...

A few years ago, funny robots seemed like the stuff of sci-fi movies. Now some AI models are trying to get in on the joke. Why it matters: Bot humor shows AI's growing understanding of culture — but ...

I sat outside Walter Library, basking in the hot October sun, but the unseasonably warm weather wasn’t the only thing that felt dystopian. After all, a robot was on the way. I’d just ordered a toasted ...

Dang robots are crummy at so many jobs, and they tell lousy jokes to boot. In two new studies, these were common biases human participants held toward robots. The studies were originally intended to ...