What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...

Japanese scientists are claiming to have developed a robot with a sense of humour. Researchers at Kyoto University say they have programmed their robot, whose unlikely name is Erica, to a) detect ...

It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...

We often hear about alumni from Berklee College of Music in Boston winning Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, or Tonys. But did you know there was a select group of students who helped make sounds for robots ...

Japanese developers of a robot are asking the public to come up with ideas for what their waist-high humanoid can do and they are offering a software development kit for programmers to get creative.

A robot has been taught to laugh at jokes in a bid to make it more human. Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan are using artificial intelligence (AI) to train robots about appropriate laughter – ...

Since at least the time of inquiring minds like Plato, philosophers and scientists have puzzled over the question, “What’s so funny?” The Greeks attributed the source of humor to feeling superior at ...

A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot, named Robat, can use echolocation to move through a novel environment while mapping it solely based on sound. A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial ...