Humanoid robots have officially arrived... sort of. Companies are wheeling out sleek, expensive prototypes with human-like limbs, while cooing PR departments promise a future where your home is ...
A Chinese company has released footage of a lifelike robot head that blinks, nods, and looks around in a convincing imitation of a real human face. The video, posted to YouTube, shows the robot head’s ...
Chinese robotics company named AheadForm is freaking viewers out after unveiling the disembodied head of a humanoid automaton with hyperrealistic features and facial expressions. Freaked-out viewers ...
The Boston Dynamics SpotMini robot. The secretive robotics firm Boston Dynamics has spent decades designing robots that can jump, gallop or prowl like animals. (Boston Dynamics) The Boston Dynamics ...
Life-size dolls. Amusement park automatons. Realistic robots. Why do some of these humanlike forms elicit positive responses, while others seem disturbing and downright creepy? Are humans hard-wired ...
Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own ...
While the demonstration of 1,000 robots shuffling into order to form a specific shape is visually impressive, the actual purpose behind this little parade is to demonstrate the technology’s capability ...