What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

Hanna Rosin: Hey. It’s Hanna, again. So last year, we did an episode with the sound designer behind The Zone of Interest, which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Sound. We thought we’d do a similar ...

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...

On the first day of Google's annual conference for developers, the company showed off a robot with a voice so convincingly human that it was able to call a salon and book a haircut – never revealing ...

If you need to add voiceover to your Facebook or YouTube videos, you have a couple of options: record the narration yourself or use a text-to-speech synthesizer to do the talking for you. If you haven ...

‘Follow me, gentlemen,’ said Spot with integrated AI. Boston Dynamics new chat (ro)bots could act as a tour guide, or—finally—a real talking pet. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes “Now behold the ...

In a year marked by significant advancements in consumer robotics and emotionally responsive AI, the launch of the Wuffy Robot Dog has become one of the most anticipated product announcements in the ...

This robot stands 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs about as much as a golden retriever and is nearly the price of a brand-new ...