Google’s latest Mobile Operating System (MOPS) dubbed Android, has all but wiped the original connection of the term android – a human-like robot- off the grid. For good measure, simply open a second ...

Two 'friendly' robots, including a 3D-printed humanistic android, are helping scientists to understand how more realistic long-term relationships might be developed between humans and androids. Two ...

HONG KONG -- If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in ...

As futurists, transhumanists, and journalists filed into New York's Alice Tully Hall on Saturday to hear a talk by android scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro, many were drawn to the stage to take photos of a ...

At the time of its launch in 2015, Erica was dubbed not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent android. Several other female-like robots have made headlines since then, but the Japanese ...

A research team used 125 physical markers to understand the detailed mechanics of 44 different human facial motions. The aim was to better understand how to convey emotions with artificial faces.

Words like “robot apocalypse” conjure a bunch of familiar images when uttered. Battalions of human and android troops marching towards each other with a constant blasts of laser beams tend to be some ...

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