The key to making this work is to make robots that are recognizable as machines, yet intuitively accepted as being lifelike. It’s the buy-in that these robots are more than appliances ...

A look back at lifelike robots' debuts highlighted their impact on robotics and public perception. Bengals' loss to Ravens ends in controversy after refs appear to miss two blatant penalties on 2 ...

Lifelike robots have yet to find a place in the average home or workplace, but Professor Peter McOwan’s research on face perception and the development of ‘facial interpretation based technology’ will ...

A photographer catches a glimpse of the future as he visits some of the world’s leading robot labs Photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg Those lifelike robots you see on TV? They might not be ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — On display at a technology exposition just outside the gates of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos was an alarmingly lifelike robot. Nicknamed "Sophia" by its ...

Narrator: This medical robot actually bleeds and cries. His name is Pediatric HAL. HAL: Hi, I'm Pediatric HAL. I can show you how I feel by moving my face and my eyes. Narrator: HAL is part of a ...

It seemed like only a matter of time before the sometimes silly, sometimes terrifying robots from Boston Dynamics made their way into police work. That time has come, apparently: The Massachusetts ...