A new exhibition in Japan, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that can act as receptionists and newscasters.

Two 'friendly' robots, including a 3D-printed humanistic android, are helping scientists to understand how more realistic long-term relationships might be developed between humans and androids.

advertisement 03-14-2017 SXSW How This Japanese Robotics Master Is Building Better, More Human Androids Hiroshi Ishiguro’s longtime dream has been to make robots that look and behave like people.

By investigating the impact of labeling human faces as "android," the research illuminates how cognitive processes shape human-robot interaction and social cognition, offering insights for ...

Google’s latest Mobile Operating System (MOPS) dubbed Android, has all but wiped the original connection of the term android – a human-like robot- off the grid. For good measure, simply open a ...

Pepper the robot looks like a robot, thanks to an almost-anime design. What then, of Kodomoroid (above, center) and Otonaroid (right)? Both androids have found employment at Japan's National ...

In a symbiotic human-robot interaction project, a multimodal conversation control system and a multi-robot conversation control system were developed to promote a robot with a higher degree of ...

Just in time for Halloween, experiments reveal why robots and Androids with human-like features and traits freak us out. But we'd better get use to them because they're on the rise in the workplace.

Androids — constructs that combine artificial intelligence and a mechanical body with a human-like appearance — are mainstays of science fiction; they appear as fugitives from the law ...

‘Robot’ was coined 100 years ago, in a play predicting human extinction by android hands Remembering the 1920 Czech play that gave us the vocabulary for automation Brian Heater ...