I step into the booth with some trepidation. I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human. It's an ...

In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that ...

A little over a year ago, researchers at Bielefeld University demonstrated that software they developed gave a walking robot a simple form of consciousness (wherein it was able to overcome obstacles ...

Part one: The long, hard road to today. The story of Prometheus ; The First Age: language and fire ; The Second Age: agriculture and cities ; The Third Age: writing and wheels ; The Fourth Age: robots ...

Artificial intelligence has been around for longer than most of us realize. In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the famous “Turing test” in a paper, opening with the sentence, “I propose to consider the ...

Humanoid robots in China are gaetting global attention for their eerie realism. These advanced AI machines are redefining ...