The robot, named Erica, can detect when a person is laughing, decide whether it’s appropriate to laugh in return or not, and choose to respond with two different kinds of laughs: a small chuckle ...

Beyond Erica and Sophia, the Japanese will see an Aibo dog robot from Sony coming to stores later this year with a hefty sales price near $2,000 and a monthly $30 service fee.

She can’t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic ...

WHAT separates us from robots? Some people will say that robots can’t tell jokes, or that the human soul is the big difference between man and machine. Well, not any more. Erica isn’t y… ...

ERICA isn’t your average brain-dead robot — she craves human interaction, tells jokes and even has aspirations. ... Erica has even learnt how to tell jokes — albeit not the world’s best ones.

A robot called Erica (right), created by Japan’s Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, conducts a job interview during its presentation at the IROS 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots ...

While other robots are learning dangerous skills, such as keeping an eye on intruders and even shooting guns, Erica is all about social skills. After all, this is an android, not an animal ...

Erica isn't your average robot - she actively craves human interaction, cracks jokes and even has a "soul", according to her creator. Trapped in a room and longing to see the outside world, the ...

The robot named as Erica is known amongst AI insiders and has been around for several years as an ongoing research project (see this research paper and this one here).

But Erica still has a way to go in the quest to not just masquerade as humans, but to emulate them. She speaks both English and Japanese, and can talk to a stranger in Japanese for 10 minutes on ...

Meet Erica (pictured above), a humanoid robot that will take center stage in Life Productions’ $70 million picture, which tells the tale of a scientist tasked with creating perfect human DNA.

A robot named Erica has been cast as the face of the movie, which tells the story of a scientist working on a human DNA experiment who helps an A.I. woman (played by Erica) escape a laboratory.