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And a new study, published in the journal Emotion, suggests that a robot that mimics human breathing can also pass on frightened feelings. The researchers developed round fluffy robots with motorized ...

A lifelike childbirth simulator called Mama Anne is training future midwives with realistic labor scenarios. The robot mannequin can blink, breathe, talk, and even deliver a baby during simulated ...

Roger Jackson — best known for being the voice of one of the genre’s most iconic villains, Scream’s Ghostface — will be taking on the role of Rabbit in the upcoming Twisted Childhood Universe sequel ...

Google, and its parent company Alphabet, have been sued by the family of a man who say he killed himself at the urging of the search giant's AI chatbot Gemini. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in ...

There's a reason many robotics companies don't try to make their machines look human. The closer you get to replicating a real face and real skin, somehow the weirder the whole thing feels. It's a ...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, and is planning a sharp increase in capital spending in 2026 as it continues to invest deeply in AI infrastructure.

Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl around on its own. The contraption is the invention of a team from the ...

Only a couple weeks removed from seeing a bunch of weird robots at CES, scientists have unveiled a new innovation in the world of creepy robotics — the detachable crawling robotic hand. Of course, one ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own ...

CES, the annual shindig for techies in Las Vegas, has kicked off this week with the latest and greatest in robots, gadgets and toys coming in 2026. From laundry-folding robot butlers to fancy alarm ...