From sassy humanoids, to AI-powered pets and chore-handling assistants, we sought out as many cute, strange and capable ...

New Berlin Police reminisce on Facebook about ARES, their 1984 talking police robot used for youth safety education.

But, despite those gaffs, robotics firms pressed on and now several believe their walking machines could work alongside human manufacturing workers in only a few short years. Figure, one of the more ...

Boston Dynamics has taken its already very promising robot dog, Spot, and given it a voice. The company shared on its blog that engineers working with Spot trained an AI model that integrated ChatGPT ...

Alas, Sulla was not a real robot, either, but a character in Karel Capek’s 1921 play R.U.R., which introduced the word “robot” to the lexicon. Ever since that debut, talking robots have seemed to be ...

Zhejiang Jinke Tom Culture Industry Co., Ltd., the company behind the Talking Tom franchise, announced plans to debut its first-generation AI robot before the Lunar New Year. The company is developing ...

A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.

Toyota wants to sell you a talking robot to keep you company while you drive. The automaker describes the robot, named Kirobo Mini, as "a miniature communication partner [...] developed to provide ...