Sure, we've all seen robots being controlled by a mobile phone, but how about a robot that is your mobile phone. Cellbots, an open source project based in Silicon Valley, has developed simple robots ...

Playing with apps on an Android phone is fun. Building your own apps, even more so. But what about using the phone to operate a moving, talking bot? Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have done exactly that.

The Bot Revolution is being talked up as the next big thing. The word bot derives from robot and first appeared during the chatroom era, which peaked in the pre-Web time around 1985. The word itself ...

This incredibly cute device turns any smartphone into an actual robot, able to respond to voice commands and navigate around your house. Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer ...

When Google first demonstrated Duplex, an AI system that makes phone calls on your behalf while sounding freakishly like a person, the oh-my-God-we’re-living-in-a-dystopia backlash came almost ...

Google first showed off its phone-calling bot, Google Duplex, in May, demonstrating how the software can make a call that sounds convincingly like a real person. Now, Google has announced a rollout ...

After seeing how Google’s Duplex AI was able to book a table at a restaurant by fooling a human maître d’ into thinking it was human, I wondered if it might be possible for us mere hackers to pull off ...

Microsoft unveiled its chatbot Xiaoice — which translates to “little Bing” — Wednesday on the heels of Google’s controversial rollout of a similar tool earlier this month. Microsoft has already tested ...

Google's reCAPTCHA has evolved from distorted text, to street numbers, to "I'm not a robot" tickboxes and, most recently, to their new invisible system. And now the company is bringing its ...