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 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 ...

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 ...

At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, scientists are building RoboEarth, a sort of Wikipedia for robots that will let them independently share instructions for tasks they’ve mastered ...

ZURICH/TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse ...