Tag: HUMANOIDROBOT

Folks, we hate to keep repeating ourselves, but all those old sci-fi scenarios are really, truly coming to pass. Take the Acroban robot, for example. Child-like, doe-eyed robot? Yes. From a futuristic manufacturer with a creepily sunny name? Yup: the bot's developers refer to themselves as Inria Flowers. Super-creepy, lo-fi video of real human children playing alongside said robot? Check. (After ...

Chances are, you weren't always kind to your teachers when you were in school (or aren't kind to them now if you're still there). Back then, the worst you probably had to worry about was a bit of a verbal rebuke or, perhaps, a trip to the principal's office. But things may change with Saya, a Japanese robot undergoing trials as a teacher at a Tokyo school. Misbehave in front of her and she might ...