Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was “starstruck,” she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing ...

Moya, a robot with realistic human-like movement and expressions, is designed to change human-robot interaction forever.

R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Horses detect human fear through smell alone and exhibit fearful behavior through emotional contagion mechanism.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba examined how artificial intelligence (AI) is represented in fictional media, including films, animation, literature, and games. Published in the journal AI & ...

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

With the latest launch of Motion Planning, Reallusion connects everything it has built into a complete simulation workflow. It adds a modular, scalable logic layer that links people, actions, and ...

KOID is designed to capture the broad humanoid value chain: the components, the brains, and the integrators building real-world humanoid systems. Read more here.

AI agents can now see your face, hear your tone and respond in real time. Teaching machines the art of being human means going far beyond surface mimicry.

Abstract: Interactive segmentation, a key branch of human-robot interaction (HRI), bridges human commands to object segmentation, enabling effective robot-scene interaction. However, existing ...

Abstract: Human Object Interaction (HOI) recognition is a critical challenge in computer vision, enabling machines to interpret complex human object dynamics with applications in robotics, ...

@inproceedings{christen2024diffh2o, title = {DiffH2O: Diffusion-Based Synthesis of Hand-Object Interactions from Textual Descriptions}, author = {Christen, Sammy and Hampali, Shreyas and Sener, Fadime ...