“Melody (pictured) was created with the intention of having robots that are easy to travel with and modify for various forms of personal interaction,” said Realbotix CEO Andrew Kigue ...

He is an extremely personal project as I’m trying to ... One time, says Liu, a young woman turned her robot into an archetype of a ‘sad boy’. The robot was completely unreliable and had ...

For $175,000 you too can have a hyper-realistic full-body humanoid robot as personal companion coupled ... and relationships for years, with one woman going so far as to marry her chatbot lover.

The disconnect goes beyond personal relationships and ... If we allow the hypersexualisation of robots and the increasing objectification of women in media to continue, society risks ingraining ...

What the men in this movie want is a robot who is “completely docile, yours to do whatever you want with.” And what the women — even the fembots — want is to drive away alone in a fancy ...

Loneiness is common among seniors. This woman at a long-term care facility in Montgeron, France, treated the robot as a confidant. They were indoors, but she imagined relaxing with it under the sun.