Brock Klamfoth, a senior studying computer science, co-founded the Animatronic Digital Engineering Initiative, which gives ...

You know what would definitely make weddings more fun? Animatronic robots of the bride and groom. These "look-alike welcome robots" take the place of boring welcome boards and greet guests with ...

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 ...

Every tech category has its moment, and for robots, that moment was CES 2026. There were dozens of humanoid robots (and a ...

Ever since Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room opened in 1963, animatronics (automated puppetry that uses prerecorded sounds and movements) has been entertaining people at amusement parks and in film.

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO apart is its ...

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO apart is its ...

Two years ago, at Jason Woliner’s birthday party, there was a strange guest in attendance. Mysterious, wise, uncanny — it was an animatronic robot cowboy named Dale. In the years prior, Woliner had ...

Ecovacs is a brand best known for its robot vacuums, but it has just unveiled something rather different at CES 2026: its ...