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Researchers at Columbia University published a study (via Science) in January 2026 that details their methods for getting a humanoid robot to look and sound a lot more like a person. They got it to ...

Humans already find it unnerving enough when extremely alien-looking robots are kicked and interfered with, so one can only imagine how much worse it will be when they make unbroken eye contact and ...

Sometime around a decade ago the graphical quality of video games reached a point that people referred to as the "uncanny valley." The term, which had popped up before but really gained traction in ...

Okay, we know that most humanoid robots are designed to mimic human motion and interaction. But Ameca, the new machine developed by robotics company Engineered Arts, takes that to a new level. It can ...

With its hairless silicone skin and blue complexion, Emo the robot looks more like a mechanical re-creation of the Blue Man Group than a regular human. Until it smiles. In a study published March 27 ...

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