The Far Side loved featuring mad scientists and their crazy inventions, with robots being the subject of some of Larson's best cartoons.

Everyone finds Robots funny; they have always played the straight man oblivious to any joke played at their expense. Now The New Yorker and Microsoft are attempting to teach a robot to be ...

Since its debut in 2005, Robot Chicken's trademark satirical humor has taken aim at some of the world's most famous IPs. Throughout its 20-year existence, the show has undergone several changes to its ...

Robots are funny, but historically most of that humor has derived from them being the "straight man." Their ability to be oblivious to the joke often makes them natural comedians. But now Microsoft ...

A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them. Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider: Humor ...

Not long ago, the idea of robots […] The post Bystanders Spot Delivery Robot Trapped In A Hole And Leap To The Rescue… And ...

A robot comic is more funny when it has good timing. Standup comedian Jon the Robot likes to tell his audiences that he does lots of auditions but has a hard time getting bookings. "They always think ...

Artificial intelligence will never get the context of jokes like humans do, and thus machines, in themselves, have no real need for humor. Pixabay/Tumisu Humor is like an opposable thumb; it’s what ...

A wisecracking cleaning robot is being rolled out to hospital wards in a bid to 'put a smile on patients' faces' and help in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. Autonomous bot Ella, built by ...

For those who worry that strong AI will eliminate us in some Judgement-Day-style apocalypse, a small measure of comfort may be derived from the thought that our human sense of humor could live on ...