When Li Mingming and Gong Meng, founders of SpaceH, decided to build a robot in Oct 2013, they wanted to do something to help their families.
Robots in sci-fi movies are almost omnipotent. In Artificial Intelligence, for example, they can provide services including prostitution, and comfort a heartbroken mother by being her child.
Since Alan Turing proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, human beings have exerted great efforts to create machines that can think and communicate like humans.
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck Houthi targets in and around the Yemeni cities of Aden and Ibb early on Thursday, residents said.
Kim Jong-un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is likely to visit Russia early next month to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, Russia's ambassador to Seoul said on Thursday.
The NBA is the first US professional league to visit sports-crazy Cuba since the declaration of detente between the Cold War enemies late last year, while the Vatican has announced the pope will also visit Cuba en route to the United States.
An Islamic college in Australia is under investigation after claims that its principal has banned girls from taking part in running competitions because they might "lose their virginity".
A waitress who shamed New Zealand Prime Minister John Key for repeatedly pulling her ponytail said on Thursday that she spoke out because of a "moral" obligation to tell the public about his bad behavior.
Two hostages held by al-Qaida and two US citizens working with the militant group were killed in US counterterrorism operations earlier this year, the White House said on Thursday.
European Union leaders gathering for an extraordinary summit are being asked to take emergency action to save lives in the Mediterranean, where hundreds of migrants are missing and feared drowned in recent days.
Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted on Wednesday for the first time in nearly half a century, spewing a column of ash 10 km into the sky and prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency.
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