(CNN) --Talking robots that interact with older people could be introduced into care homes to help fight loneliness and mental ill health. Pepper, a "culturally competent robot," was tested on care ...

SITTING in his bedroom, 17-year-old Freddie opens his heart to a “friend” about being bullied at school. Desperate not to upset his mum, he instead entrusts details of his six-month ordeal to this ...

Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face ...

The Army is developing a system to allow autonomous ground robots to communicate with soldiers through natural conversations — and, in time, learn to respond to soldier instructions no matter how ...

Robots are becoming more popular in hospitality and I wanted to see what the hype was about. I went to a sci-fi restaurant where I was served nachos by chatty, smiling robots. The robots roll back to ...

But, despite those gaffs, robotics firms pressed on and now several believe their walking machines could work alongside human manufacturing workers in only a few short years. Figure, one of the more ...

Boston Dynamics has taken its already very promising robot dog, Spot, and given it a voice. The company shared on its blog that engineers working with Spot trained an AI model that integrated ChatGPT ...

The Navy suggests that talking robots will also be useful to commercial ships. “The civilian market for unmanned vessels appears poised for take-off, and such vessels will need to be able to function ...

Once upon a time, not too long ago, robots had not yet been trained to answer customer phone calls. But, alas, they learned, too well: to serve their owners, and to cleverly torment the humans they ...

Talking robots that interact with older people could be introduced into care homes to help fight loneliness and mental ill health. Pepper, a "culturally competent robot," was tested on care home ...