The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an ...

What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...

It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...

Figure AI Inc. has launched its second-generation humanoid robot, Figure 02, which refines every aspect of its predecessor, Figure 01. This advancement brings the company closer to its goal of selling ...

We often hear about alumni from Berklee College of Music in Boston winning Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, or Tonys. But did you know there was a select group of students who helped make sounds for robots ...

‘Follow me, gentlemen,’ said Spot with integrated AI. Boston Dynamics new chat (ro)bots could act as a tour guide, or—finally—a real talking pet. reading time 3 minutes “Now behold the rock pile, a ...

Boston Dynamics made its robot dogs speak using ChatGPT, and they all have different personalities. The personalities include "1920's Archaeologist," "Precious Metal Cowgirl," and "Nature Documentary.

I’ve watched enough robot videos online to know that slapping an AI model into a hunk of hardware doesn’t automatically make it useful. I remember one clip in particular where someone had wired ...