Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their lips correctly. Even the most advanced humanoids make little more than ...

"If a robot has a face that is not human, then we are more accepting of less-than-human behavior, as we would with an animal or doll," he said. "Intelligence significantly below that of normal humans ...

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 ...

Did I have long stretches of happy grinning while watching Robot Dreams, even on my subsequent rewatches, when I knew what was coming? Yes, I did. An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature ...

“The Wild Robot” director Chris Sanders was feeling a little lost himself. In 2020, he ventured into live-action filmmaking with “The Call of the Wild,” an ambitious, imperfect adaptation of Jack ...

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"Sometimes to survive we must become more than we were programmed to be." Universal + DreamWorks Animation have unveiled the first official trailer for The Wild Robot, their next big animated movie.