Copying human expressions is super-difficult, but scientists used hours of YouTube videos to teach a robot how humans move ...

When it comes to ultra-humanlike Westworld-style robots, one of their most defining features are lips that move in perfect ...

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

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 ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...

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