Google’s latest Mobile Operating System (MOPS) dubbed Android, has all but wiped the original connection of the term android – a human-like robot- off the grid. For good measure, simply open a ...

Two 'friendly' robots, including a 3D-printed humanistic android, are helping scientists to understand how more realistic long-term relationships might be developed between humans and androids.

A recent Japanese study tried to teach an advanced android how and when to respond to shared laughter - a social skill for advancing human-robot interaction ...

Of course, it's actually a real human doing the talking and controlling the robot's movements remotely, so the apparent human presence is simulated. But it's eerily life-like, as you can see from this ...

Hiroshi Ishiguro (right) stands next to his android body double, Geminoid HI-2 (left). Similarly, Ishiguro has used his own android to teach classes and attend press conferences—although he ...

A new robot has independent conversational skills like a human, spurring on flashbacks to Skynet from the sci-fi film, Terminator. OpenAI created the robot called Figure 01.

Scientists in China have built a robot capable of performing critical tasks using an artificial brain grown from human stem cells.