They presented the new robot in the scientific journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and it supposedly will utilize a novel method for synthesizing facial expressions based on Action Units.

Uncanny Valley! Watch as a creepy humanoid robot mimics a researcher's facial expressions in real time - with eerie precision Emo robot from Columbia University can smile at the same time as people ...

No need to be weirded out by video conference meetings, Skype or FaceTime anymore guys, there’s a robot for that. The Socibot will translate the faces you’d make in person, just, you know, on ...

Take for example the use of robots for social needs. During the height of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, so much emphasis was placed on the detrimental effects of social isolation and loneliness.

Co-expression is a thingMost of the best robots, ones that can walk, run, climb steps, and do parkour, do not have faces, and there may be a good reason for that. If any of them did have mugs like ...

An eerie robot that has the face of a child can make scarily realistic facial expressions. The android was developed by researchers from Osaka University in Japan.

Meet Sophia, a social robot created by former Disney Imagineer David Hanson. Modeled in part after Audrey Hepburn and Hanson's wife, the robot was built to mimic social behaviors and inspire ...

Meet Emo, the robot head capable of anticipating and mirroring human facial expressions, including smiles, within 840 milliseconds. But whether or not you’ll be left smiling at the end of the ...

Long interested in interactions between robots and humans, researchers have created EVA, a new autonomous robot with a soft and expressive face that responds to match the expressions of nearby humans.

Preventing others from copying your robot’s AI-driven face, expressions and vocalizations requires a comprehensive intellectual property strategy. That’s one of the takeaways from a pending ...