Hotels, wellness spaces, and cruises around the world are using this emerging concept not to replace human interaction—but to ...

Last night during the Oscars, Disney debuted a new commercial highlighting their soon-to-open Pandora: The World of Avatar at Animal Kingdom, and, good lord, why is that Na’vi robot so incredibly ...

WTF?! A Japanese city is adding a twist to learning from home by using avatar robots in classrooms that allow children to engage in school life remotely. The move comes as Japan struggles with a ...

Scientists at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) are creating a hi-tech robot designed to mimic human movements – resembling something from epic sci-fi movie Avatar. The robot – which has the ...

The world’s largest robotics conference, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, came to London last week, where a dizzying array of cutting-edge robots were on display, ...

An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

There have been a number of interesting developments happening in the world of robotics lately, including Team NimbRo from the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group at the University of Bonn, Germany, ...

Over the past four years, the research team at the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova (Italy) has developed advanced avatar technologies, ...