Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those ...

This blond, "female" robot named Aria is powered by AI for her conversation skills, with 17 motors driving her facial ...

Taking inspiration from the movie "Her," an American firm at CES 2025 wants to sell you a "romantic companion" — if you've got $175,000 to spare.

But this future isn’t guaranteed, and a PhD researcher is hoping to claim back a more hopeful outlook with a robot called Blossom which is specifically built to investigate how humans interact ...