Robotics researchers have developed an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back of a plastic mask, and a computer ...

Top: The human face of Mask-bot  Bottom: Professor Takaaki Kuratate does some final adjustments to the Mask-bot Robotics researchers in Munich have joined forces with Japanese scientists to ...

While great strides have been made in the development of humanoid robots, such as Honda's ASIMO, giving robots a human face with natural expressions and movement has proven a difficult task. While ...

Most robots that have human faces still have the appeal of a dead-eyed zombie or doll creepily brought to life with twitching facial features and jerky mouth movements. A new robot may prove more ...

New framework syncs robot lip movements with speech, supporting 11+ languages and enhancing humanlike interaction.

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that can chillingly mimic human facial expressions and emotions in scientists' latest attempt to replace workers with machines.

So they can better infiltrate human communities when the war begins. Kidding! This is actually an exciting improvement on robosthetics, a term coined for the sake of combining robot with ‘aesthetics.’ ...

Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, "These ol' human faces just aren't expressive enough?" Perhaps what you need is the Qudi Mask 2, a gadget that lets you wear all your emotions on your ...

Mask-bot can already reproduce simple dialog. When Dr. Takaaki Kuratate says "rainbow", for example, Mask-bot flutters its eyelids and responds with an astoundingly elaborate sentence on the subject: ...