The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...

Zhou’s Beat-to-Body project aligns with a growing body of research exploring sound as a control signal for humanoid robots. A ...

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

The achievement addresses one of the biggest obstacles in humanoid design: facial motion that looks off. While robotics has ...

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 ...

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 ...