The search giant is working on a way to prevent intelligent machines from overriding their directives.
Researchers from Germany are building an artificial nervous system that will enable robots to feel pain.
A Google-powered artificial intelligence has become the first to beat a human champion at the game Go.
A new type of material is able to detect pressure and transmit that information directly to the brain.
More than 1,000 top technical experts have called for a full ban on autonomous weapon systems.
Three polite robots have taken the first tentative steps towards exhibiting a sense of self-awareness.
Stephen Hawking believes that intelligent robots could be on course to destroy human civilization.
Scientists have developed an artificial heart that can pump blood around the body without beating.
Google's DeepMind AI is now capable of playing several Atari 2600 games as skillfully as a human.
Researchers have created a responsive artificial limb that can be controlled directly by the brain.
Several big names have signed a letter aimed at ensuring that AI research remains beneficial to mankind.
Neuroscientist Randal Koene envisages a future in which the mind could live forever within a computer.
The world famous physicist believes that artificial intelligence could pose a threat to our existence.
Scientists have succeeded in creating synthetic enzymes using artificial genetic material.
The unsettling feeling that there is someone else in the room with you can be artificially induced.
The world's first in vitro hamburger could soon be accompanied by a nice glass of lab grown milk.
The practice of testing products on animals could be discontinued within as little as three years.
A Russian artificial intelligence has become the first program in the world to pass the test.
The prize is available to anyone who can build an artificial intelligence capable of delivering a talk.
Google's Ray Kurzweil has claimed that within 15 years we will be interacting with intelligent computers.