A sceptical internet – quick to demonstrate the crab mentality evident among us – was quick to label the mannequin fitted with a speaker and an LLM as not a true robot. But the real question here is: ...

In a room at the University of Oslo in Norway, Tiago moves around, looking people straight in the eye with a smiling face. Sometimes Tiago gets agitated, like when it plays Connect Four, a board game ...

Transformer mannequin at Ripley's Believe It or Not in London, 2020 (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital) Would you welcome a robot into your home? Guess what: You probably already have. That’s if you use ...