This summer, on the first day of the workshop reading of my latest play, veteran Ottawa actor Paul Rainville asked me: “How do I play a robot?” He was referring to his character, Adam, the husband and ...

Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to ...

Video games have played an important role in the development of AI. Many early demonstrations of machine learning involved teaching computers to play games. Eventually, Google Deepmind’s mastery of ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

It’s hard not to be impressed by Omron’s Forpheus ping pong playing robot. The giant robot measures in at close to roughly 304cm (10ft) and also looks rather wide. As a result, it’s unlikely that ...

When it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre double-armed machine that made a guest appearance in Sweden last fall when it played cello ...

Meet Alex, a humanoid robot designed to replace ping pong playing Nadia. The new robot created by IHMC in downtown Pensacola ...

Watch out racket sport maestros, because Swiss researchers have built a robot that can play badminton. Though, according to researchers, the robot's level is that of a seven-year-old child - so it's ...

While China's men's football team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing – based more on the artificial intelligence (AI) technology ...