Watching hours of YouTube videos isn’t usually considered the most prestigious form of education, but it might be a surprisingly effective tool for robots learning to communicate like humans.

If you want your humanoid robot to realistically simulate facial expressions, it’s all about timing. And for the past five years, engineers at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab have been ...

A humanoid robot named EMO learned to mimic human speech and expressions by practicing in front of a mirror, astonishing ...

With its hairless silicone skin and blue complexion, Emo the robot looks more like a mechanical re-creation of the Blue Man Group than a regular human. Until it smiles. In a study published March 27 ...

A humanoid robot can predict whether someone will smile a second before they do, and match the smile on its own face. The creators hope the technology could make interactions with robots more lifelike ...