China is gearing up for a historic event in April, as it hosts the world’s first marathon featuring both human and robot runners ... particularly in the face of rivalry with the United States.

In a fascinating blend of technology and artistry, researchers present a study in PeerJ Computer Science, showcasing how humanoid robots can collaborate seamlessly with human musicians during live ...

Advanced synchronization techniques: The robots utilized multimodal sensory integration—visual, auditory, and predictive systems—to synchronize their performances with human musicians effectively.

Robot consequential sounds have been shown to correlate with significantly more negative human perceptions of robots, including increased negative associated affects (such as anxiety), feeling more ...

History is set to made this April as China will be hosting the world's first human-robot marathon in Beijing's Daxing district. This half-marathon will feature 12,000 human runners competing alongside ...

Researchers have enabled China’s Unitree humanoid robot G1 to master the art of waltzing by mirroring human movements. For this, a team at the University of California, San Diego, has developed ...

“And she has since taken a leading role in defining the function of these regions in human face recognition.” Tsao and Freiwald’s subsequent work localizing the equivalent face-specific ...

This revelation follows a research paper from Apple that explores human interactions with non-anthropomorphic robots, specifically using a Pixar-style lamp as an example. While this research hints ...

The iLife V3s Pro is the best robot vacuum you can get for less than $200. Despite its low price, the V3s Pro consistently outperformed other robot vacuums that cost three times as much. It picked ...

This repository contains the code, dataset, and model outputs for the ICMI 2024 paper Multimodal User Enjoyment Detection in Human-Robot Conversation: The Power of Large Language Models. It includes ...