Kokoro recently unveiled its Actroid F telepresence robot, a full sized female humanoid with complex facial movements and realistic appearance. Though it can't move from its chair, it can blink, shift ...

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 ...

Virtual assistants and robots are frequently given female attributes. To curb the massive use of such gendering in AI, we need to better understand the deep roots of this phenomenon.

A robot has been created that is so life-like it fooled one-in-two people into thinking it was a real human. But not only has the lifelike device been mistaken for a real person - she's also been ...

The idea of a human-like robot has been ingrained in pop culture since before computers as we know them were even a remote possibility. Thanks to the incredible leaps forward in computing speed ...

Kathleen Richardson, professor of ethics and culture of robots and AI at the UK's De Montfort University, remembers when humanoid robots did not typically take an adult female form.

The most susceptible group of people turned out to be "powerless female consumers," which the team found to be more likely than others to go with menu suggestions made by male-like robots.