What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...

Hanna Rosin: Hey. It’s Hanna, again. So last year, we did an episode with the sound designer behind The Zone of Interest, which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Sound. We thought we’d do a similar ...

Two students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) have built a robot which is responsive to sound. Saddam Hossain and Abul Munjer, fourth year students of Electrical and ...

A new breed of robot mimics bats by using sound alone to find its way around. The four-wheeled Robat, developed by Israeli researchers, uses an echo-based sonar system to navigate and map its ...

Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have discovered. Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is ...

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like ...

Over the past two decades, humanoid robots have greatly improved their ability to perform functions like grasping objects and using computer vision to detect things since Honda’s release of the ASIMO ...