As robots become more common in offices and homes, more humans will need to communicate with them. Sadly, bots still can’t converse or read or write well—yet. A European research project is looking to ...

The Internet’s vault of how-to information isn’t just useful for humans these days. A European project called RoboHow is teaching machines to learn to complete tasks from instructions on the web. One ...

Brenna Houck is a dining editorial manager for the Eater network overseeing the Cascadia and Midwest regions. She previously edited Eater Detroit and reported for Eater. You can follow her at ...

RoboHow has trained robots to make pancakes and pizza. Now they've trained a robotic maitre d'hotel to take an order and relay it to the robotic chefs. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Teaching a robot how to carry out everyday tasks is so difficult that a new Wikipedia for robots is needed to break down and explain actions in detail to them Michael Memminger, RoboHow Before robots ...

In a lab in northern Germany, a robot named PR2 is learning to make pancakes and pizza by browsing Internet recipes. It’s not exactly easy, even though the instructions sound straightforward to a ...

If the robots ever actually do rise up and take our jobs, we may only have ourselves to blame — at least those of us who share information about how to perform specific human tasks online. Meet PR2, a ...