On Sunday, humanoid robotics startup Noetix Robotics unveiled a new generation of bionic robot featuring a female persona named Xiao Nuo. Xiao Nuo is equipped with multimodal embodied interaction ...

While service robots with male characteristics can be more persuasive when interacting with some women who have a low sense of decision-making power, 'cute' design features -- such as big eyes and ...

Fembots, or female robots, have come in many different varieties throughout film history, from cold and creepy to plastic manifestations of the male gaze. Let's check out 14 of the best female ...

It's 2008, by which time Doctor Who had been offering us formidable female companions for 3 years. Put Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) on that bench, even before her life-changing encounter with the ...

Example of stimuli in distances of 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 cm from camera from left to right for female human (upper row) and female robot (lower row). Source: Pazhoohi et al. (2023). Journal of ...

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Ex Machina was about a young man tasked with testing the artificial intelligence (AI) of a female robot. Companion, however, posits a world where synthetic humans have become common.

A life-sized robot dubbed "Aria" drew plenty of attention on the show floor of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. She's as tall as a human, can speak with an AI-enabled voice, and ...

This blond, "female" robot named Aria is powered by AI for her conversation skills, with 17 motors driving her facial expressions so she appears as human as possible. We Interviewed Aria, a $175K ...

This is the impressive moment a robot replicated human facial expressions in China. Footage shows an elderly man holding a camera phone linked to the model's face placed on a table in Shanghai on ...

AI robot companions for kids go dark as company shutters. The company, Embodied, announced this week it had lost funding and will close up shop, reports Aftermath . That will brick Moxie, its ...

Female gibbons appear to do robot dances for attention, scientists discover. (Image credit: Peach_iStock/Getty Images) The researchers examined three aspects of the behavior to define it as dance ...