Robots replace hotel check-in staff — and a tourist freaks out when they talk back: ‘Don’t look at me’ By ... her hotel in Japan had replaced its receptionists with talking robots, ...

Essentially, a chatbot is just a robot chat that imitates human conversations through voice commands, text chats, or both. It's a virtual conversation in which one party is an online talking robot.

In a milestone for robot-human relations, the talking Japanese robot Kirobo had its first conversation with an astronaut in space. Astronaut Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...