While the Cylons in the original 1978 "Battlestar Galactica" definitely looked like actors in chrome suits, they at least sounded like robots. Cylon Centurions spoke with a low-pitched synthesized ...

You’ve spent hours perfecting a PowerPoint or Google Slides deck, only to realize recording the voiceover will be a headache. Maybe you don’t have a good mic, or you just dislike how your voice sounds ...

At first glance, SEN seems like a familiar kind of animated short. A small robot with oversized, expressive eyes wanders through a dangerous landscape, communicating entirely through movement and ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When it comes to technology, there are already a lot of exciting developments happening, including leaps in things like artificial ...

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

It’s as important as ever to support the amazing local restaurants we have in our beautiful city. And there’s no better way to do so than committing to patronize them throughout the year. I’ve ...

Serena Williams’ daughter Adira is a little chatterbox! The 2-year-old asked her papa Alexis Ohanian a sweet question in a new video, and we could listen to that adorable voice on repeat. In a new ...

LAS VEGAS — “Your excitement is contagious! I’m ready to celebrate with you. What’s the special occasion?” At the massive tech confab known as CES this week, hearing an AI chatbot talk to me out of a ...

The clean machine: Cute new robot 'uses AI to crack household chores’. The race to build humanoid robots is on, with many of the world’s leading tech companies desperate to put friendly android ...

When Tom Stevens brought his robot dog Jennie to CES in 2025, it was something of a gamble. His startup, Tombot, had not yet secured a Series A funding round—and potential investors weren’t sold on ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that ...