However, the world's largest online retailer is now only offering the devices to selected interested parties in the US. Amazon's attempt to repurpose Astro as a surveillance robot has since been ...

smart assistants should try to infer if the user is facing the device they want to talk to. They call it direction-of-voice or DoV. Currently, smart assistants use a simple race to see who heard ...

It’s ironic that this wave of generative AI is still regarded as something of a novelty because walking, talking robots are now credibly achievable due to similar underlying advances.

With chatbot technology getting more humanlike everyday, adults are using the dirty talking robots to create virtual girlfriends and boyfriends. With AI technology improving every day, online ...

Ji Woong “Brian” Kim, a postdoctoral researcher working with Krieger, said the team has already developed a system “where you can talk to the robot like you would to a surgical resident.