Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

The achievement addresses one of the biggest obstacles in humanoid design: facial motion that looks off. While robotics has ...

Researchers have developed a humanoid robot that can learn realistic lip motions, enabling it to articulate words across ...

Columbia Engineers have created a robot capable of mimicking and learning human lip movements during speech. The upgraded design combines advanced robotics with AI, enabling the device—named Emo—to ...

If 2025 was the year we asked, “Can they walk?”, 2026 is the year we are asking, “Can they do the dishes?” The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has always been a circus of gadgets, but this year ...

We have all heard about the robot that had to be cut to confirm that there was no human inside. When XPENG unveiled its hyper-realistic humanoid robot IRON at its AI Day in Guangzhou, it stirred all ...

Humanoid robots are set to become the next great technological breakthrough, and China is poised to dominate the market. Having already demonstrated several real-world industrial and service ...

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 ...

The takeaway: At a time when investors are placing multibillion-dollar bets on humanoid robots, the people building them describe a more complicated picture. Engineers and executives working on the ...

As humanoid robots move from demos to homes, CES 2026 raises urgent questions about who benefits, who loses, and how much control we’re willing to hand over ...