Called "avatars" by the Kyoto Prefecture-based ATR team, the robots will be used during the expo in the "Future of Life" ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) MASTER'S DEGREE GRADUATE, KAZUKI TAMURA, SAYING: "When I entered this university, I never thought I would control an avatar robot to receive a diploma. I think this is truly a ...

Emily Blunt sat down with Elle magazine for its Women in Hollywood cover series and looked back at her first movie audition, ...

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Over the past four years, the research team at the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova (Italy) has developed advanced avatar technologies, ...

Honda Motor Company announced plans to innovate in new business areas like electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), bipedal robots and space technology. Honda R&D Co., Honda Motor ...

DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called "Avatar." If you've seen the movie of the ...

It’s been speculated—in big budget movies, no less—that one day mankind will never leave its computers, and will instead explore the world through virtual reality and robots. And here’s the ...

Foothill Theatre Arts is tackling the topic of AI with the West Coast premiere of “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” running ...

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Marcus Wandt has recently achieved a historic feat by remotely controlling a four-legged robot dog named Bert from the International Space Station (ISS). This ...

Two diverse, beloved animation series — at Adult Swim and Nickelodeon — are celebrating 20th anniversaries with new productions. The new production marks the culmination of two decades of Robot ...

The iCub3 robot avatar system has been designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators encompassing aspects such as locomotion, manipulation, voice, and facial expressions ...