NAO Robot Delivers Truly Natural and Conversational Interactions with Nuance's Powerful Voice Recognition and Text-to-Speech, Driving the Future of Human-Robot Communication Paris, France and ...

See that Nao robot waving its hand up there? It's not starting a dance routine: it just had a light-bulb moment, so it's trying to catch a human's attention. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor ...

Forget waiting for that Google driverless car to come out, CEO and founder of RobotsLAB, Elad Inbar has already made a robot that can do almost anything for you, including drive you anywhere you want ...

Would you think twice about turning off your TV if it asked you not to? Probably! A study performed by a team of German scientists shows that after people have a conversation with a robot, they began ...

Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is Japan’s biggest bank, and I’ve been a customer for over six years. That may have been a good call, because now it’s the first to employ robots. Aldebaran Robotics’ Nao, a ...

A humanoid robot created by Aldebaran Robotics is now connected to a voice recognition technology cloud that allows it to converse in 19 different languages. The NAO robot features Nuance’s Natural ...

Nao could usher in the age of social humanoid robots that are designed to live and work with humans. Aldebaran Robotics, a French company owned by Japan’s SoftBank, has created five versions of the ...

As far as consumer humanoid robots go, Aldebaran Robotics' NAO is certainly one of the more capable. Among other things, it features a two-camera computer vision system, a sonar distance sensor, two ...

The robot told test subjects it was scared of the dark and pleaded ‘No! Please do not switch me off!’ The robot told test subjects it was scared of the dark and pleaded ‘No! Please do not switch me ...

OK, maybe now it's time to start worrying. While artificial intelligence has been making considerable progress, the doomsday scenarios painted by science fiction are still years, if not decades, away ...

For many autistic kids, social interaction is incredibly difficult–but not with robots. That’s because robots are more predictable and require the children to take in less external stimuli than with a ...