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World’s first ‘biomimetic AI robot’ Moya debuts with 92% human-like walking accuracy

A humanoid robot that walks, maintains eye contact, and displays subtle facial expressions has ...

'Biomimetic AI Robot' Debuts In China (And It's As Creepy As It Sounds)

Moya, DroidUp’s new biomimetic robot looks and feels uncannily human, with warm skin and subtle facial expressions, making it ...
New Scientist

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...
The Body Optimist on MSN

When AI takes on a human face: this ultra-realistic robot sparks controversy

In China, the company DroidUp has just unveiled Moya, a humanoid robot of astonishing realism. Equipped with integrated ...
New Atlas

MIT's artificial muscles for soft robots flex like a human iris

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...
insider.si.edu

My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves / Julie Wosk

Simulated women and the Pygmalion myth -- Mechanical Galateas : female automatons and dolls -- Mannequins, masks, monsters, and dolls : film and art in the 1920s and 1930s -- Simulated women in ...