POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

Researchers hope the study's findings on goats encourage people to learn more about the intelligence and awareness of farm animals Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Learn more about hand gestures and how some of them can mean two vastly different things depending on the culture you're in.

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers' gaze has never been systematically ...

Dogs possess a 2-year-old child's capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent studies ...

Pointing makes kids believe you. And it may convey an air of authority to adults, too. That's the finding of a pair of psychologists at the University of Virginia. In a new study probing how young ...

Researchers have studied the acquisition and development of language in babies on the basis of the temporary coordination of gestures and speech. The results are the first in showing how and when they ...