Humans have gained a lot of value by organizing all their knowledge and making it widely accessible—in textbooks, libraries, Wikipedia, and YouTube, to name a few examples. These pools of knowledge ...

If robots are really going to take over the world, they'll first need to search the Internet for extra-long-lasting batteries and cool-looking campaign ribbons to decorate their brave warrior drones.

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – Let the robot race begin. Expectations are high for RoboEarth, a new European-funded system to speed the development of human-serving robots. Scientists from five major ...

Japan and the Republic of Korea are the early pioneers of automation, establishing the world’s most robot-dense factories ...

Taking another step towards "learning machines", a group of European universities are going to launch an online platform through which robots can learn new skills from each other worldwide - a kind of ...

No, the robots aren’t self-aware yet, but a team of researchers is demonstrating how networked machines learn from each other and create what they call a “Wikipedia of robots.” Researchers at ...

A new study found that using artificial intelligence to police entries to open-source encyclopedias like Wikipedia could result in a more reliable source of information for users. The study, published ...

Robots, it seems, are poised to build their own version of Wikipedia, thanks to the efforts of scientists at the Seventh Framework Programme, the E.U.'s research arm. The network is called RoboEarth, ...

Let the robot race begin. Expectations are high for RoboEarth, a new European-funded system to speed the development of human-serving robots. Scientists from five major European technical universities ...

The heads of more than 100 of the world's top artificial intelligence companies are very alarmed about the development of 'killer robots'. In an open letter to the UN, these business leaders – ...

Robots will soon be able to solve problems without the need for human input, as in the future our electronic friends will have their very own Web to surf. Sadly (for the robots at least), this ...