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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) is partnering up with XPrize to create a competition it hopes will use this tech to jumpstart development on a real-life general purpose robot avatar.

Professor Tachi from Japan’s Keio University has been working on telepresence robots since the 1980s, and TELESAR V, a so-called telexistence robot avatar, is the finest work of his lab yet.

The robot was developed to efficiently reach depths that humans cannot. "OneK is your avatar in the water," Khatib remarked. In 2016, OneK, which was at the time just OceanOne, was taken to the ...

This human-robot collaboration is a first and the successful start of a new series of ISS experiments. The Surface Avatar project, led by the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, aims to ...

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 ...