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The Longer Read Meet the AI human-like robots that can do our jobs Current breakthroughs in AI are key to the revolution in ‘human’ androids, explains Robert Waugh. Some of them are already ...
A new exhibition in Japan, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that can act as receptionists and newscasters.
Beijing, China - The world's first-ever humanoid robot games began Friday in Beijing, with over 500 androids alternating ...
By investigating the impact of labeling human faces as "android," the research illuminates how cognitive processes shape human-robot interaction and social cognition, offering insights for ...
advertisement 03-14-2017 SXSW How This Japanese Robotics Master Is Building Better, More Human Androids Hiroshi Ishiguro’s longtime dream has been to make robots that look and behave like people.
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.
A roboticist explains how androids can be more humanlike than humans, and why that's not necessarily a good thing.
Pepper the robot looks like a robot, thanks to an almost-anime design. What then, of Kodomoroid (above, center) and Otonaroid (right)? Both androids have found employment at Japan's National ...