An avid gamer with over 30 years of experience, there aren't many consoles that Dan hasn't owned at some point in his life. He's also part Italian, which means he's almost certainly related to Super ...

A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them. Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider: Humor ...

Can scientists teach a robot to dance with grandma? No, that question wasn’t a weird Mad Libs answer, this is the underlying focus of a study by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory, ...

A wisecracking cleaning robot is being rolled out to hospital wards in a bid to 'put a smile on patients' faces' and help in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. Autonomous bot Ella, built by ...

Robots designed to have a sense of humour may struggle to understand when and what makes things funny - and this could even lead them to kill, one expert warns. The inability of artificially ...

Spot’s trajectory quickly diverted from inside a lab to under the limelight. Within months, the robot was strutting across ...

Everyone finds Robots funny; they have always played the straight man oblivious to any joke played at their expense. Now The New Yorker and Microsoft are attempting to teach a robot to be ...

Artificial intelligence will never get the context of jokes like humans do, and thus machines, in themselves, have no real need for humor. Pixabay/Tumisu Humor is like an opposable thumb; it’s what ...

A robot comic is more funny when it has good timing. Standup comedian Jon the Robot likes to tell his audiences that he does lots of auditions but has a hard time getting bookings. "They always think ...

A lot of people are worried that robots are going to take their jobs. Doctors are worried that they’ll be replaced by robot doctors. Chefs are worried that they’ll be replaced by robot chefs. But me?