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Psychologists nowadays are able to measure human intelligence by using various IQ tests. Nevertheless, they still don’t agree on one common definition of human intelligence. What would happen if we apply a similar approach to measuring intelligence of artificial entities, skipping never-ending discussions on AI definition? According to professor Selmer Bringsjord and Bettina Schimanski an answer is contained in Psychometric AI (PAI).

The robot presented on the video can chat with other humanoid robots via the Internet. Moreover, when faced with a new situation, the robot can search the World Wide Web and gather appropriate information in order to fill an identified knowledge gap. Afterwards, it incorporates new knowledge under its own power, and is ready to execute diverse new tasks.

Present chatbots have rather limited reasoning, inflexible behavior and they lack learning abilities. They perform entrusted tasks in strict accordance with programmed procedures. What if chatbot developers equipped new chatbots with an advanced online-learning mechanism applied recently in intelligent humanoid robots?

Experience a foreign or distant world without actually being there: Japanese researchers leaded by professor Susumu Tachi at Tachi Laboratory have developed Telesar V Robot Avatar which delivers a remote experience straight to its operator by transmitting sight, sound and touch data. You can actually feel the shape and surface unevenness, and also the temperature of objects.

Most conventional hard robots are composed of metallic structures. However, the development of soft robots can find new applications in robotics and virtual humans in augmented reality environment. An elastomeric gripper of an embodied agent equipped with an embedded pneumatic network could touch, recognize and gently pick up an egg!

There are up to 4 PhD postitions in Speech Technology and Communication open at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which is Sweden’s leading research and education institution in Information Technology, with activities at both KTH and Stockholm University.

The goal of the positions is to contribute to the research foundation for speech technology in tomorrow’s conversational systems. A central research area is spoken interaction with artefacts like robots and avatars in virtual environments, based on human-like communication models. Face-to-face interaction implies audiovisual communication, where visual signals from face and body movements are of great importance.

Children with autism can develop skills they normally find difficult by interacting with virtual worlds. By using multitouch, these children activate a virtual character on a screen and experiment with different social scenarios. This way, researchers can compare their responses to those displayed in real-life situations.

Disney Research and Robotics Institute have developed a method which translates motions of actors into a 3D-face model.

Having acquired skills of falling in synthetic love, making long-term cyber relationships, and playing pool with two hands, it’s time to take care of the artificial stamina! Recently, robots became active supporters of football and they began to play this most famous game in the world.

How to model a human-to-robot romantic relationship? Just a few elements will do: artificial emotional hormones, intelligent affective system and probabilistic parameters of love between humans and the robot…

During 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation researchers from Technical University of Munich presented a dual-armed robot capable of playing pool on a normal sized pool table.