In Japan there’s an experimental coffee house called DAWN Avatar Cafe where you are served by an avatar robot and you can even converse with it while having your coffee or light snacks. Behind the ...

Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it's real Story by Brigitte Viljoen, Elizabeth Day • 10mo ...

At the Dawn cafe in central Toyko, diners are greeted as they come in the door not by a person, but by a robot avatar. It has ...

A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to attend ...

Tourists who head to a high-tech café in Tokyo, Japan, will be greeted by robot waiters and bartending staff - all of which are being controlled by humans back at home. The Dawn Avatar Robot ...

Norwegian company 1X showed us EVE, a robot currently deployed as a remote security guard. But it was NimbRo’s avatar that really caught our eye. Fresh from winning the ANA Avatar XPRIZE ...

Does anyone want to buy a humanoid robot for $16,000? The latest product from Unitree hopes that you will: Meet the Unitree G1, a "Humanoid agent AI avatar," aka a robot. If you haven't heard of ...

Robot Chicken specials will air Sundays at ... is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its mythological adventure series Avatar: The Last Airbender with the announcement of a new, 26-episode ...

This human-robot collaboration is a first and the successful start of a new series of ISS experiments. The Surface Avatar project, led by the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, aims to ...

Participants also developed a level of trust in the AI social robot or digital avatar. When the conversation flowed, users would forget they were relating to a machine. The more human the AI ...