What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

Hanna Rosin: Hey. It’s Hanna, again. So last year, we did an episode with the sound designer behind The Zone of Interest, which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Sound. We thought we’d do a similar ...

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...

On the first day of Google's annual conference for developers, the company showed off a robot with a voice so convincingly human that it was able to call a salon and book a haircut – never revealing ...

When we use large language models to augment, improve, or accelerate our writing, they erase our human voice in the process.

‘Follow me, gentlemen,’ said Spot with integrated AI. Boston Dynamics new chat (ro)bots could act as a tour guide, or—finally—a real talking pet. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes “Now behold the ...

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In a year marked by significant advancements in consumer robotics and emotionally responsive AI, the launch of the Wuffy Robot Dog has become one of the most anticipated product announcements in the ...

A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot, named Robat, can use echolocation to move through a novel environment while mapping it solely based on sound. A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial ...

Have you ever read a corporate press release and felt a slight chill-like you were reading output from a machine rather than from a person? That reaction is more common than you might think, and it ...

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...