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The price tag for walking, talking robots should drop to mere tens of thousands of dollars in the coming years, according to a pioneer in the field.
She will slow pose, be your back-up singer, dance with you and blow kisses. And it doesn’t take a lifetime’s commitment to get there. WowWee’s first female robot FemiSapien has been spotted ...
All of these androids have one thing in common – they are all female by design. So why is it that creators typically choose to give their robots feminine characteristics?
Thousands thought ‘android girl’ act performed by human at Tokyo Game Show was real robot Video shared online showing an actress mimicking a cyborg-like creature in a PlayStation 4 game went ...
A robot is going to be an actor, and provides lessons about AI and self-driving cars.
There's been a lot of talk about robosexual marriage lately — with some people claiming it will destroy society. But the truth is, robots have been ...
In a world where technology promises to liberate and elevate humanity, the gross sexualisation of female robots exposes a darker, more sinister truth: misogyny is not just alive and well, it's ...
An AI robot called Muhammad touched a female reporter’s backside during a Saudi Arabia tech expo. The android acted ‘independently without direct human control.’ ...
One reason for the glut of female artificial intelligences (AIs) and androids (robots designed to look or act like humans) may be that these machines tend to perform jobs that have traditionally ...
The current media fixation on hyperrealistic female androids and sex robots comes at a moment when automation threatens not only unskilled labour, but also such bastions of middle-class ...