Robotics researchers have developed an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back of a plastic mask, and a computer ...

While great strides have been made in the development of humanoid robots, such as Honda's ASIMO, giving robots a human face with natural expressions and movement has proven a difficult task. While ...

A robot face so realistic that it can even flutter its eyelids has been hailed by its inventors as the next-step in human-robot relations. Mask-bot, developed by engineers at the Technical University ...

Top: The human face of Mask-bot  Bottom: Professor Takaaki Kuratate does some final adjustments to the Mask-bot Robotics researchers in Munich have joined forces with Japanese scientists to ...

Mask-bot can already reproduce simple dialog. When Dr. Takaaki Kuratate says "rainbow", for example, Mask-bot flutters its eyelids and responds with an astoundingly elaborate sentence on the subject: ...