A robot called Emo that senses when a human is about to smile and simultaneously responds with one of its own could represent a big step towards developing robots with enhanced communication skills ...

Researchers have created a robot that can smile back – in a human way. Emo, the robot, has been designed to mimic facial expressions and can pick up subtle clues in human facial expressions – and it ...

During CES 2019 a new friendly companion was unveiled in the form of BOCCO emo, created by the Japanese company YUKAI. BOCCO emo has been designed to be a family communication device and the small ...

Sometimes all you need is a little friend. That's where Yukai's Bocco Emo, an updated version of the original Bocco robot, comes in. Meant to offer companionship for children and senior citizens while ...

With its hairless silicone skin and blue complexion, Emo the robot looks more like a mechanical re-creation of the Blue Man Group than a regular human. Until it smiles. In a study published March 27 ...

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person's smile before the person actually smiles -- a major ...

Ever feel like no one really understands you? Well “Pepper” could be about to change all that. That’s because Pepper is actually a robot and touted as the world’s first with the ability to read ...

If you want your humanoid robot to realistically simulate facial expressions, it’s all about timing. And for the past five years, engineers at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab have been ...

If we want to live in a world where we interact with robots, they'll have to be able to read and respond to our facial expressions in lightning-fast time. Now, scientists have come a step closer to ...