To the Editor: As regards to the article about the Traffic Safety Summit this past week, I went to the N.H Highway Safety Agency website looking for background information and data. In the section ...

This robot knows how to shape alphabet letters by using kid-friendly clay, Play-Doh, without any human assistance, all thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers it. As kids, most of us, ...

Humans aren't the only ones working with Play-Doh. MIT CSAIL researchers have created a system, RoboCraft, that teaches robots how to work with the kid-friendly goo. The platform first takes the image ...

A robot has learned how to mould modelling clay into letters that it has never seen before. Creating complex shapes out of doughy materials is a skill that could be put to use in the future in the ...

Several companies are fighting to be the one that tricks you into thinking a real person has written you a thank-you letter. Imagine an army of robots holding real pens, writing real letters that look ...

People answering the New York Times crossword puzzle might be wondering what the “Manga Genre Involving Giant Robots” clue is. If you want to know what the January 30 “Manga Genre Involving Giant ...

As robots from Boston Dynamics and the like continue to find more widespread applications, concerns are growing around their misuse. In a bid to prevent the spread of killer robots in society, a group ...

Brian Horton makes a good point about the need for versatility within a single robot design, but there is no reason a specifically human form is needed for this. A quadruped with a many-armed torso, ...