The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an ...

It stands 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs about as much as a golden retriever and costs near the price of a brand-new budget ...

Every day, innocent people get on the phone and find themselves transformed into a robot by an evil system of telecom infrastructure. At least, that’s what it sounds like on the other end of the line.

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...

Ben Burtt created the sound of my childhood. He gets that a lot. “Yeah, I hear that often,” says the legendary sound designer, creator of the lightsabre swish and Darth Vader’s electronic wheezing, ...

People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding ...

The first talking humanoid robot "astronaut" has taken off in a rocket. Kirobo _ derived from the Japanese words for "hope" and "robot" _ was among five tons of supplies and machinery on a rocket ...

We've been talking to robots for a while now. In the decade or so since Siri and her compatriots first appeared, we've all gotten pretty used to having conversations with computers in various forms.