iCub is an open-source hardware project described as a “cognitive humanoid robotic platform." The project was initiated in Italy, but the technology is now in use at several other labs, including the ...

Robot offers girl one last reassurance during farewell that it will be one of countless stars in the universe watching over her A six-year-old girl's tearful farewell to her broken AI robot moved ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

AT FIRST it’s just noise: a stream of incoherent sounds, burbling away. But, after a few minutes, a fully formed word suddenly emerges: “red”. Then another: “box”. In this way, a ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

Mohamed Baghdady leans to the microphone and says the word "one." A lone mechanical finger on the table responds with a curl, then rises upright. At another table in The Citadel engineering lab, a ...

A six-year-old girl’s tearful farewell to her broken AI robot moved millions in China when the tiny machine gently taught her one last word – “memory,” moments before shutting down. The girl, ...