It's a new wrinkle in our AI-enhanced world after kids became attached to the lifelike robot that promised to help them learn social skills — only to be told the company would no longer support ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — On display at a technology exposition just outside the gates of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos was an alarmingly lifelike robot. Nicknamed "Sophia" by its ...

A photographer catches a glimpse of the future as he visits some of the world’s leading robot labs Photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg Those lifelike ... beyond than what most of us think ...

They’ve announced [Grace], a lifelike robot made to take on nursing ... But you could say the robot looks most realistic when standing still. We were amused to see an Arduino Uno in the frame ...

Now, a new measurement scale created by hospitality researchers reveals the four qualities that robots must exhibit to seem lifelike: human-like appearance, emotional capacity, social intelligence ...

The scale can help companies and engineers quantify how lifelike their robots are in a way that can guide the development of better, more approachable robots for the service industry. "Before we ...

arguably the most well-known four-legged robot, with designs that mirror lifelike movements that resemble people and animals leading to an uncanny valley effect that may make viewers uncomfortable.

Narrator: This medical robot actually bleeds and cries. His name is Pediatric HAL. HAL: Hi, I'm Pediatric HAL. I can show you how I feel by moving my face and my eyes. Narrator: HAL is part of a ...

It seemed like only a matter of time before the sometimes silly, sometimes terrifying robots from Boston Dynamics made their way into police work. That time has come, apparently: The Massachusetts ...