Whoever said you can't be in two places at once never meet SociBot. From the same company that created RoboThespian-- Engineered Arts -- SociBot v1.2 allows people to program their faces, or anyone ...
Robots are getting friendlier. Or creepier, depending on your perspective. Meet Socibot, a new design from the U.K. company Engineered Arts. It can decipher your facial expressions to figure out your ...
Full-bodied humanoid robots are undeniably fascinating, but why pay for the lower part of the body if you don't need it? For that matter, why pay for the arms if you don't need them, either? That's ...
SociBot-Mini is a 60-centimetre-high bot that can adorn a friend's face and even predict your mood or guess your age. Spooked? The brainchild of Will Jackson and his colleagues at Engineered Arts in ...
No need to be weirded out by video conference meetings, Skype or FaceTime anymore guys, there’s a robot for that. The Socibot will translate the faces you’d make in person, just, you know, on a robot.
Développé par une entreprise britannique, le SociBot est un robot de communication capable de prendre le visage d'un être humain si celui-ci a été scanné au préalable. Communiquer avec un robot est ...
Many Hollywood movies have made a lot of money banking on robot characters programmed to think and act like humans. Robots in non-fictional world, however, are still regarded as machines that do not ...
A disembodied robot torso showing your colleagues face may at first seem a terrifying proposition, but researchers say this 'social robot' could actually be far more effective than traditional ...
Ever worry that you spend way too much time staring at, and conversing through, two-dimensional screens? Don’t worry, science has a solution: the SociBot-Mini, a robot with facial features that can ...