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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robots are funny, but historically most of that humor has derived from them being the "straight man." Their ability to be oblivious to the joke often makes them natural comedians. But now Microsoft ...

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, ...

Robots aren't particularly known for their sense of humor. That's why the gentle laughs produced by "Robot & Frank" - a clever, unexpectedly touching dramedy about the relationship between an aging ...

The AI-powered robot is named AIdol. It is made by the Russian robotics firm Idol. As it walked over to the reporters, the Russian robot waved as the main theme song from Rocky, Gonna Fly Now, played ...

In 1984, a high-tech marvel named Seiko took center stage during the grand opening of Wang’s computer store on Boston’s ...

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 ...