The iPal is intended to serve as a learning and safety companion for children. It is also designed to get kids off the couch and interested in science and technology. The iPal stands 3.5 feet tall.

In a new survey, 31% of teens said their conversations with AI companions were "as satisfying or more satisfying" than ...

Artificial intelligence could become your child’s new best friend. California-based Embodied has created Moxie – a robot companion designed to support social, emotional and cognitive ...

What’s more, AI companions can’t model healthy human relationships. “In the real world there are all kinds of social cues that kids have to both interpret and get used to and learn how to ...

A research team says they have discovered something “extraordinary” in an experiment exploring how families relate to ...

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Enabot has announced the availability of its family robot companion, EBO X. A CES 2023 Innovation Award Honoree, the industry-first commercialized ...

Some seniors in New York are successfully combating their loneliness with an AI-powered companion robot named ElliQ—while others called the "proactive" device a nag and joked about taking an ax ...

For example, while for the group of people aged 21-30, the average score for the perception of the desire to have a robot as a companion is 3.6 points, for the group of people aged 60 and above ...