The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and are so perfectly smooth in speech they almost outdo people.

The MIT team found robots signaling as the opposite sex — seemingly male robot meets female human — were considered more trustworthy and engaging.

A recent Japanese study tried to teach an advanced android how and when to respond to shared laughter - a social skill for advancing human-robot interaction ...

There's been a lot of talk about robosexual marriage lately — with some people claiming it will destroy society. But the truth is, robots have been ...

Virtual assistants and robots are frequently given female attributes. To curb the massive use of such gendering in AI, we need to better understand the deep roots of this phenomenon.

The word “robot” would not enter the lexicon for more than a hundred years, but Jaquet-Droz is now considered the primary creator of some of the world’s first androids—robots with a human ...

The AILA robot with a female figure could join NASA's Robonaut 2 aboard the International Space Station to assist human astronauts.

TOKYO, June 24 (UPI) -- Do androids dream of museum curation? That's what two eerily human-like robots have been tasked with in Tokyo at Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

In this Japanese study, participants were introduced to three “counselors” – a human female; a realistic humanlike female robot (the android ERICA); and a small clearly non-human robot ...

Meet Otonaroid and Kodomoroid, two eerily lifelike robots who can read fluently, recite tongue twisters, blink, move and twitch their eyebrows (natch). Japanese android expert Hiroshi Ishiguro ...