Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face ...

Caption A collaboration between UW developmental psychologists and computer scientists aims to enable robots to learn in the same way that children naturally do. The team used research on how babies ...

You wanna see her move? I think that’s the fun part. The room is thick with anticipation and fabricated skulls. She’s gonna wake up. Give her a second. Matt McMullen eyes his creation as her eyes ...

Felix and his ten-year-old teammate, Sophie Sacher, had built the companion robot for people with chronic migraines and heart diseases. Its artificial intelligence (AI) allowed it to converse, sing ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Humanoid robot “teaching assistants’’ that listen to children read are under development for classrooms, as busy parents shun reading stories to their own kids.

Naver, a South Korean internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable. By John Yoon and Daisuke Wakabayashi John ...