The China Spring Festival Gala has long been recognized as one of the most influential cultural events in the country, ...

Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe other animals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now ...

The researchers developed round fluffy robots with motorized ribcages that can simulate breathing by expanding and contracting. More than 100 participants held these robots, which breathed in a ...

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Cartwheel Robotics has unveiled its latest innovation, Yogi, a humanoid robot designed to foster genuine human connections in domestic settings. Announced on October 17, 2025, Yogi aims to seamlessly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers in the UK have designed a new groundbreaking type of social robot that mimics therapy horses and helps people regulate ...

On the floor of the Ex-Robots factory in China’s northeastern coastal city of Dalian, engineers develop humanoid robots with a focus on enhancing facial expressions and emotions. Neck-length silicone ...

DreamWorks Animation marks Lupita Nyong’o’s first voice role in an animated feature. Based on the novel by Peter Brown, “The Wild Robot” follows a hyper-intelligent android named Roz (Nyong’o) who ...

“ei: emotional intelligence” is a lovely short film from Dennis Sungmin Kim made during his first year at the University of Pennsylvania. There’s a touch of Wall-E here, sure, but mostly it feels like ...

To tweak a line from “Terminator 2:” “Come with me if you want to love.” Researchers have bridged the gap between science fiction and reality by inventing a life-sized AI robot “to tackle the ...

Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old girl with autism started playing with a robot that teaches about ...