Artificial intelligence

The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities...

Researchers have observed the process of evolution by natural selection at work in robots, by constructing a ‘mother’ robot that can design, build...

Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...

Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even...

Robots can do a lot for us: they can explore space or they can cut our toenails. But do advances in robotics and artificial intelligence hold hidden...

A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have come together to propose a new centre at Cambridge to address developments in human...

“Do we actually want machines to interact with humans in an emotional way? Will it be possible for them to interact with us?”

Cambridge computer scientists are building computers that read minds – and robots and avatars that express emotion.