Futurism

This Robot With a Working Human Face Is Incredibly Unsettling

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...
collider

10 Most Criminally Forgotten Animated Shows, Ranked

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Cowabunga! Paramount Going All In on ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ With YouTube Show, Mattel Line — and Even Restaurants

The moves come as Skydance-owned Paramount assesses the franchise. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer The new Skydance-owned Paramount is shouting Cowabunga, dude from the mountain top. The company is ...
USA Today

Want a robot to greet you at the door? The future may be here

For more than a decade, Faraday Future has described its electric vehicles as something more than cars – rolling computers packed with sensors, software, and artificial intelligence. Now the embattled ...
New Atlas

She walks, shows emotion, holds eye contact and is warm – but she's a robot

At this stage of the robotics race, it's probably fair to assume that a few of us have a bit of humanoid malaise. After all, we've seen more funny videos of robots dropping plates out of dishwashers ...
New York Post

Uncanny ‘warm-skinned’ robot built to feel as human as possible could show up in service worker roles

It’s warm bot-tied. Techsperts are sounding alarm bells following the release of an eerily realistic humanoid service bot named Moya with camera eyes and, most creepily, warm skin. Dystopian footage ...
TechSpot

Warm skin, eye contact, and microexpressions: world's first "biomimetic AI robot" revealed

WTF?! The sci-fi trope of humanoid robots that are almost indistinguishable from the real thing has moved a lot closer to reality. China has revealed what is dubbed the first "biomimetic AI robot," ...
CNN

Could this teenage girl be North Korea’s next leader?

A young teenage girl shrouded in mystery and intrigue could very well be the next leader of the isolated hermit nation North Korea. Some experts believe leader Kim Jong Un is grooming his daughter to ...
TechCrunch

Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation

University of Texas spinout Apptronik, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, on Wednesday announced that it re-opened its Series A to raise a total of $935 million for the ...
SlashGear

'Biomimetic AI Robot' Debuts In China (And It's As Creepy As It Sounds)

There's a reason many robotics companies don't try to make their machines look human. The closer you get to replicating a real face and real skin, somehow the weirder the whole thing feels. It's a ...
Polygon

19-year-old Sam Rockwell formed a lifelong friendship on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

In the original 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, the headquarters for Shredder’s Foot Clan is a wonderland for juvenile delinquents. The ruthless ninja offers his followers drinking and ...