“With a robot with a high level of anthropomorphism, consumer empathy generates more negative responses and a lower level of satisfaction,” the report found. Instead, the researchers proposed designs ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

A Chinese robotics startup has introduced what looks to be one of the most realistic robot faces yet, capable of blinking, ...

THE future is here and was showcased in an eerie exhibition in China, where new companies presented hauntingly realistic ...

A Chinese robotics company showed off an unsettling creation — a robot with a very human-like face. It's giving 'Westworld' ...

AheadForm, a Chinese robotics company, has developed an ultra-realistic robot head that can blink and nod, mimicking human ...

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IFA 2025 is Berlin's annual proving ground for tech that wants to reshape everyday life. Amid the wall of 8K screens and concept cars, one of the best, quietly radical debuts this year scrubs. The ...

A robotics company has created a futuristic robot-head that is eerily similar to humans, with hope that it can be used in robot-related research, or even in the hospitality industry ...

Paris Fashion Week is no stranger to a gimmick. There was Coperni spraying a dress onto a model in 2022, followed by ...

Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic ...