The Vgo robot is like an avatar for business and educational purposes --except it's a cute 4-foot droid instead of a giant blue cat-person. It's a remote controlled mobile device, equipped with ...

Using a robotic avatar to go places a human body can't is ... allowing the user to feel what the robot feels. Right now, the prototype can only do simple tasks like wave and shake hands, but ...

Norwegian company 1X showed us EVE, a robot currently deployed as a remote security guard. But it was NimbRo’s avatar that really caught our eye. Fresh from winning the ANA Avatar XPRIZE ...

Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI)—from the development of the first "social robots" (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with ...

Participants also developed a level of trust in the AI social robot or digital avatar. When the conversation flowed, users would forget they were relating to a machine. The more human the AI ...