It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is subject of imagination, films, and stories, but it also is reality. Superhuman capacity of AI is obvious in games as well as in image and language processing, ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.

Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mark Yim has completed the second phase of a human-robot interaction research project at Penn’s ModLab. The project primarily aims to develop Quori, a ...