Capable of mimicking human expressions and emotions, the SociBot is designed to bring a human touch to teleconferencing – or to imitate your friends. But will it just creep you out? If Skype and ...

This disembodied robot can identify you in a crowd, mimic human emotions, and follow you around the room with its eyes. Plus, it's programmable to display any face, even your own. Journalist Bonnie ...

Robots are getting friendlier. Or creepier, depending on your perspective. Meet Socibot, a new design from the U.K. company Engineered Arts. It can decipher your facial expressions to figure out your ...

Full-bodied humanoid robots are undeniably fascinating, but why pay for the lower part of the body if you don't need it? For that matter, why pay for the arms if you don't need them, either? That's ...

SociBot-Mini is a 60-centimetre-high bot that can adorn a friend's face and even predict your mood or guess your age. Spooked? The brainchild of Will Jackson and his colleagues at Engineered Arts in ...

No need to be weirded out by video conference meetings, Skype or FaceTime anymore guys, there’s a robot for that. The Socibot will translate the faces you’d make in person, just, you know, on a robot.

Many Hollywood movies have made a lot of money banking on robot characters programmed to think and act like humans. Robots in non-fictional world, however, are still regarded as machines that do not ...

Are people consistently killing your vibe in social situations with their lack of neck movement/dancing? Well, your lone struggle through an out-of-touch playlist could be a thing of the past, all ...

Développé par une entreprise britannique, le SociBot est un robot de communication capable de prendre le visage d'un être humain si celui-ci a été scanné au préalable. Communiquer avec un robot est ...