Exclusive: Divesh Lala, a member of the project who programmed the script to find and classify solo and shared laughter by robot ERICA, shares the significance of the research which could enable ...

An artificially intelligent humanoid robot has nabbed the leading role in a $70 million (£56.4 million) upcoming Hollywood sci-fi movie, titled ' b '. Erica, the eerily human-like android actress ...

We’ve known for a while that Japan is busy at work creating life-like human robots that will one day take over the world. But for the most part they’ve seemed pretty silly, like malfunctioning ...

At the time of its launch in 2015, Erica was dubbed not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent android. Several other female-like robots have made headlines since then, but the ...

Japanese robotics guru Hiroshi Ishiguro and his creation, the 23-year-old humanoid robot Erica, are here to redefine what it means to be human.

Erica, however, looks and sounds far more realistic than Ishiguro’s silicone doppelganger, or his previous human-like robot, Geminoid F. Though she is unable to walk independently, she possesses ...

Hiroshi Ishiguro, who created Erica, described her as "the most beautiful and most human-like autonomous android in this world." ...

The Erica android is a very human-like robot that can interact with you, and that's not at all creepy.

Meet Erica, a creepy real-life like robot destined to be a TV news anchor in Japan. Created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, she is set to report the news by Spring.

The robot is part of a five-year research project to build a talking friend for an aging, shrinking population in Japan.

Well, not any more. Erica isn't your average robot - she actively craves human interaction, cracks jokes and even has a "soul", according to her creator.