She can’t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor ...

"In other methods of acting, actors involve their own life experiences in the role, but Erica has no life experiences," one of the movie's writers explained This soon-to-be movie star may not have a ...

Robots are likely to replace a lot of jobs in the future, but these roles are generally well-suited to automation. For some jobs — particularly creative professions — it’ll be much harder to simply ...

Exclusive: Divesh Lala, a member of the project who programmed the script to find and classify solo and shared laughter by robot ERICA, shares the significance of the research which could enable ...

Horror Movies M3GAN 2.0 star Ivanna Sakhno explains how she brought horror villain AMELIA to life and what it was like having a creepy animatronic version of herself on set: "I cannot begin to tell ...

Some people will say that robots can't tell jokes, or that the human soul is the big difference between man and machine. Well, not any more WHAT separates us from robots? Some people will say that ...

It’s the weekend, and you decide to pay a visit to your grandma, who lives alone. When you arrive, however, you realize she has another visitor, and you hear through the door the two of them laughing.

An artificially intelligent humanoid robot has nabbed the leading role in a $70 million (£56.4 million) upcoming Hollywood sci-fi movie, titled 'b'. Erica, the eerily human-like android actress, will ...

Roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University created Erica the robot. The Erica project is the result of collaboration between Osaka and Kyoto ...

KYOTO, Japan — Erica greets me, asks my name and how I’m enjoying my trip to Japan. She nods her head as I speak and her eyes wander, but she seems only to be listening to me. This eerie humanoid just ...

Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing ...

She can’t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor ...