Desdemona, a robot that improvises spoken word poetry, is the latest passion project of Ben Goertzel, former chief scientist at Hanson Robotics. Desdemona was also built by Hanson but programmed ...

Don’t blink. In a hi-tech David versus Goliath story, a group of undergraduate students at Purdue University built a robot that crushed the world record for solving a Rubik’s cube once held by ...

SCIENTISTS CREATE CREEPY LIFELIKE FACES WITH REAL HUMAN SKIN FOR ROBOTS. The technology behind the robot. What powers Mirokaï’s charm is a combination of sophisticated technology and thoughtful ...

He began to say the c-word out loud: He wants to create conscious robots. “This is not just another research question that we’re working on — this is the question,” he said. “This is ...

In its ELEGNT paper, Apple researchers explain how they built a non-anthropomorphic robot lamp prototype with an expressive design model rather than a functional one. They write: ...