Scientists have created a robot that learns lip movements by watching humans rather than following preset rules. The ...

The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned ...

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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 ...

The robot next watched many hours of YouTube videos of people talking and singing, in order to understand which mouth movements accompany which vocal sounds. Its AI system was subsequently able to ...

Columbia University engineers have built a robotic face that can learn to move its lips in sync with speech and singing by watching itself in a mirror and then observing humans in online videos, ...

The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department.