Alas, Sulla was not a real robot, either, but a character in Karel Capek’s 1921 play R.U.R., which introduced the word “robot” to the lexicon. Ever since that debut, talking robots have seemed to be ...

Boston Dynamics has taken its already very promising robot dog, Spot, and given it a voice. The company shared on its blog that engineers working with Spot trained an AI model that integrated ChatGPT ...

Toborlife AI engineers offer exclusive, candid insights and technical analysis of the breakthrough Unitree R1 Humanoid ...

The tiny robot captures the spirit of one of the country's most famous cartoons. Sept. 5, 2013— -- "Good morning to everyone on Earth." These are among the first words said by Kirobo today, the ...

The robot next watched many hours of YouTube videos of people talking and singing, in order to understand which mouth movements accompany which vocal sounds. Its AI system was subsequently able to ...

Zhejiang Jinke Tom Culture Industry Co., Ltd., the company behind the Talking Tom franchise, announced plans to debut its first-generation AI robot before the Lunar New Year. The company is developing ...

Toyota wants to sell you a talking robot to keep you company while you drive. The automaker describes the robot, named Kirobo Mini, as "a miniature communication partner [...] developed to provide ...

If you thought Boston Dynamics’ robot “dog” couldn’t get any creepier, well... Happy Halloween. The robotics company behind shockingly agile humanoids like Atlas has made the outrageous, but obvious ...

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