In an era where technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are evolving at an unprecedented pace, it’s the small details that often captivate our imaginations and hint at a future where humans and ...

A robot called Emo that senses when a human is about to smile and simultaneously responds with one of its own could represent a big step towards developing robots with enhanced communication skills ...

If you want your humanoid robot to realistically simulate facial expressions, it’s all about timing. And for the past five years, engineers at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab have been ...

With its hairless silicone skin and blue complexion, Emo the robot looks more like a mechanical re-creation of the Blue Man Group than a regular human. Until it smiles. In a study published March 27 ...

his robot might just out-smile you. Researchers at Columbia University recently introduced “Emo,” a new humanoid robot capable of mimicking real-time facial expressions and even anticipating your ...

If we want to live in a world where we interact with robots, they'll have to be able to read and respond to our facial expressions in lightning-fast time. Now, scientists have come a step closer to ...

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person's smile before the person actually smiles -- a major ...

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