"Sometimes, I hate this game," says Victor, a Scrabble-playing robot created by students under the supervision of Reid Simmons, a robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University here. Victor's ...

I thought hanging out with a Scrabble-playing robot would be a nice, chill time. I even imagined they would be useful at nursing homes, as therapy companions to elderly residents. I was extremely ...

My friend Nick does, too. Only Victor is a robot. A trash-talking, Scrabble-playing robot. Victor will play Scrabble with anyone who visits the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- "Victor" is rarely at a loss for words. He is a Scrabble-playing robot, programmed by the robotics department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a bit of a trash talker.

I quit Scrabble and tried to play some other not-fun phone games, like the one where I post a picture of my burrito on social media and get no love, not even from robots who say “Collab?

Students who sit down for a game of Scrabble in the lounge in the computer science building at the Pittsburgh school are across the table from a blockheaded fiberglass robot with changing animated ...

Now a Scrabble-playing program has gone one better by playing dirty. Developed by Eyal Amir and Mark Richards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the program is able to predict which ...

A multidisciplinary team has developed Victor the Gamebot, a robot that regularly plays games of Scrabble with students at Carnegie ... such as the robot remembering a person’s play from previous ...

The Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots is a blend of 3-D vision recognition, artificial intelligence and hand-eye coordination technologies that play scrabble and learn from the ...

PITTSBURGH – Victor, the Scrabble-playing robot, does not like to lose. It’s arguably his most human quality. Even when he’s winning, he tries to get under your skin. Dr. Reid Simmons ...