By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

Thinking outside the box is one thing; finding a robot to deliver the box is another. That’s what Marianela Nanninga does at ToDo Robotics. The ability to adapt has been my constant friend, sewn into ...

Humanoid robots are beginning to take on household tasks, showing how AI-powered machines could soon assist with chores in ...

POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Purdue University researcher Sooyeon Jeong is working to make robots more helpful and personable. Jeong, an assistant professor of computer science, leads a lab that focuses on ...

Machines are all around us -- driving, conversing, making decisions. With 55 percent of mature organizations planning to invest in artificial intelligence by 2020, it's only a matter of time before ...

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