DOJ documents released last week contain a $3 million funding request from roboticist David Hanson to build an “attractive female android,” complete with a “working gorgeous robot face and body.” The ...

Gender stereotyping or normalising verbal abuse or harassment falls short of the current standards for prohibited AI under the European Union's AI Act. Extreme cases, such as voice assistant ...

An undefeated wrestler and a volleyball All-American head up this year’s Tri-County Award winners as announced by the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame.

GUANGZHOU – The burgeoning development of artificial intelligence has found a sultry new frontier in the sex robot industry, as a Chinese company unveils a new series of realistic dolls designed to ...

Ever stared at a doll or robot and felt something was off — even disturbing? That’s not random. It’s the uncanny valley — a deep, primal reaction to almost-human faces that your brain wants to reject.

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In 2025, the whole of social media was flooded with Labubu dolls. However, now it appears the collectable plush toy industry has a new craze, a hyperrealistic charm toy, Mirumi. Created by Tokyo-based ...

Not being a sex robot myself, I had to take an imaginative leap to write from the perspective of Annie in my novel Annie Bot. Because the book is written in the third person, not the first, Annie ...

Achieve Credit Union helped provide four robotic baby dolls for Clearview High School’s child development class to help support students. The addition of the robotic babies will help students in the ...

Chinese automotive company XPeng has been making a major splash with its Terminator-like humanoid robot, dubbed Iron. Footage of the company’s announcement showed the robot sauntering across the stage ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...