The robot, intended for use among kids between 5-10 years old, is 15 inches tall and has a human-like animated face that can display a range of human-like emotions.

A man falls for his chatbot girlfriend, whom he named Sol and programmed with a flirty personality. The man's human partner, ...

Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice? This uncertainty is more than a ...

In a future where ever more human-like AI bots will vie for our attention and try to steal us from our friends, a robot like IRIS could reconnect us with our friends. But even IRIS will never see us ...

While there are many benefits of engaging with AI, if used in place of interaction rather than as an adjunct to it, it has the potential to hamper our social connectedness.

The robot begins as a being following its programming and mystified by human emotionality, and over time it begins to choose, to act freely, to cut its strings and ultimately to love.

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania ...