2026 is being hit with a home robot trend but they’re missing the mark ...

Zhejiang Jinke Tom Culture Industry Co., Ltd., the company behind the Talking Tom franchise, announced plans to debut its first-generation AI robot before the Lunar New Year. The company is developing ...

Toyota wants to sell you a talking robot to keep you company while you drive. The automaker describes the robot, named Kirobo Mini, as "a miniature communication partner [...] developed to provide ...

Boston Dynamics has taken its already very promising robot dog, Spot, and given it a voice. The company shared on its blog that engineers working with Spot trained an AI model that integrated ChatGPT ...

Alas, Sulla was not a real robot, either, but a character in Karel Capek’s 1921 play R.U.R., which introduced the word “robot” to the lexicon. Ever since that debut, talking robots have seemed to be ...

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Once upon a time, not too long ago, robots had not yet been trained to answer customer phone calls. But, alas, they learned, too well: to serve their owners, and to cleverly torment the humans they ...