A humanoid learned to control its facial motors by watching itself in a mirror before imitating human lip movement from ...

When it comes to ultra-humanlike Westworld-style robots, one of their most defining features are lips that move in perfect ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

There is a place on FIU's smoke-free campus where cigarette smoking is allowed. But not just any cigarette. And only if you’re a robot. Professor Hoshang Unwalla, a researcher at the FIU Herbert ...

Though it’s the robot arms and architecture that get most of the attention, the end effectors (or end-of-arm tooling) is where the action happens…or doesn’t happen if the end effector can’t adapt to ...

Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. “I ...

That seems like something they should have thought of. They've open-sourced the design, publishing it for anyone to build and develop in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. The robot ...