As ambitions go, however, when compared to building an artificially intelligent robot butler they sound rather tame.

But we need a better understanding of the human brain before we can construct a truly intelligent robot.

She also wondered how an intelligent robot would feel about being created — a detail we do not seem to trouble ourselves with much.

This project focuses on outdoor guide robots, an emerging class of intelligent robot platforms.

Today robots can be made that adapt their responses to their environment through self-programming, so-called intelligent robots.