A few years ago, funny robots seemed like the stuff of sci-fi movies. Now some AI models are trying to get in on the joke.

A “human-like” AI robot from Russia fell over on its debut showing, causing panic, and a chaotic exit from the stage as a ...

Robots using popular AI failed basic safety and fairness tests, even approving harmful tasks. Until there is independent ...

Agility Robotics’ Digit, one of the most widely deployed robots in manufacturing, takes a break from factory floors for some ...

Robophobia, or prejudice towards robots and artificial intelligence, has long existed as a concept in science fiction, with ...

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 ...

Turns out the Terminator's dry sense of humor was pretty spot on. Turns out the Terminator's dry sense of humor was pretty spot on. At the INTETAIN Conference, hosted by Columbia College, Christopher ...

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 ...

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 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 ...