Take the word ‘robot’ for example, which is more commonly used wrongly rather than correctly when going by the definition of the person who coined it: [Karel Čapek].

1 Word Explains Why Your Robot Co-Worker Looks Kind of Human: Trust. Story by Kit Eaton • 1mo. A new study say it’s easier for people to work alongside robots if they look a little like us.

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word "robot" in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum's Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum ...

From Which the Word ‘Robot’ Comes. Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock open our solving weekend. Share full article. 330.

For now, the robot wasn’t watching itself and forming a self-model — it was just moving around randomly, twisting or shifting once every second. If it could be conscious, it wasn’t yet.

Researchers at MIT have created a robot capable of constructing furniture and other large objects from reusable building blocks based solely on spoken commands. This innovative technology has the ...

1 Word Explains Why Your Robot Co-Worker Looks Kind of Human: Trust. A new study say it’s easier for people to work alongside robots if they look a little like us.