Nvidia's robot simulator now includes human characters too CES 2023: Nvidia unveils improvements to its robotics simulation toolkit -- including the ability to test how robots react to humans.

"Then I realized, 'This would be interesting to tell the story from the point of view of the robot. What if the robot was the most human character in the story?' ...

An uncannily human-like robot that had been programmed to socially interact with human companions tricked people into thinking that the mindless machine was self-aware, according to a new study.

The Wild Robot has a huge cast of intriguing characters. It details the travels of a robot who learns to survive on a forest island with animals.

When people encounter social robots, they tend to treat them as both machine and character, explains a new paper.

A groundbreaking robot that's like a real-life Wall-E uses advanced artificial intelligence to replicate natural gestures and deliberate actions with striking accuracy.

A video purportedly showing an amazingly human-like robot walking down a driveway began to go viral (along with expressions of robophobia and cyber-dystopianism) in mid-August 2018: Although many ...

Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling A new humanoid robot prototype uses fluid-filled muscles to kick its legs while hanging.

In our research, we explored the potential link between social robots and human character. Could treating social robots kindly make us kinder people? And could cruelty towards them make us more ...

The document says Disney is developing robots, including "humanoid robots," that have been "adapted for soft contact and/or interaction with a human." "To physically interact with children," the ...

A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of developing more human-like cyborgs.