According to The Economist, 42% of American high school students reported using AI as a “friend” within the past year. In ...

Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns.

There is now a global race to build humanoids that can walk, talk, reason, lift, carry, fetch, stack and generally operate in ...

In a closed-door workshop led by Anthropic and Stanford, leading AI startups and researchers discussed guidelines for chatbot ...

Chinese company XPeng showed off a robot with distinctly female anatomy, including pronounced breasts and hips, sparking a ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...

Bernt Børnich, CEO and founder of 1X Technologies, said "there is no experience quite as magical" as living with a NEO robot Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...

What if the future wasn’t just a distant dream but standing right in front of you, walking, talking, and even helping with your daily tasks? Meet Figure 03, a new humanoid robot that promises to ...

Was it love at first sight? It’s hard to say, but the Honolulu Zoo says there are positive signs that its resident female white-handed gibbon, Japan, is taking to her new male companion, Bono, who was ...

I was intrigued when I saw the first trailer for The Red Strain, Atomfall's second piece of DLC. There was a new brand of robot (which looked quite a lot like the old robots), a new fungus (which ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...