The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department.

To study how auditory and verbal hallucinations work, Swiss scientists developed a robotically-assisted technique to make people who have no history of mental illness hallucinate voices that are not ...

The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Barath Raghavan argue that all talking AIs and robots should use ring modulators to make themselves distinguishable from human speech. "We think the bulk of the uses will ...

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