What sets Emo apart is its ability to anticipate a forthcoming smile approximately 840 milliseconds before it happens, and to co-express it simultaneously with the person.

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 ...

But her super-smart sibling Christopher may well still be alive when a robot named Cosmo breaks into her room to convince her to journey across the American West to find the real Christopher. With ...