In an era where technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are evolving at an unprecedented pace, it’s the small details that often captivate our imaginations and hint at a future where humans and ...

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Researchers have created a robot that can smile back – in a human way. Emo, the robot, has been designed to mimic facial expressions and can pick up subtle clues in human facial expressions – and it ...

If you want your humanoid robot to realistically simulate facial expressions, it’s all about timing. And for the past five years, engineers at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab have been ...

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 ...

A robot called Emo that senses when a human is about to smile and simultaneously responds with one of its own could represent a big step towards developing robots with enhanced communication skills ...

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person's smile before the person actually smiles -- a major ...

A silicon-skinned robot face developed at Columbia University combines AI, cameras for eyes and 26 actuators to mimic human facial expressions.

What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a ...