The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an ...

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...

‘Follow me, gentlemen,’ said Spot with integrated AI. Boston Dynamics new chat (ro)bots could act as a tour guide, or—finally—a real talking pet. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes “Now behold the ...

People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

This article by Jared Keller originally appeared on Task & Purpose, a digital news and culture publication dedicated to military and veterans issues. The Army is developing a system to allow ...