A woman who uses a wheelchair says she’s often unable to pay for her weekly food shop because of supermarket self-checkouts. Toyin Fabusiwa, 26, posted a video of her struggling to scan her groceries ...

Sometimes there can be more serious consequences. In 2024, a coroner in Buckinghamshire asked tech companies like Google, Apple and TomTom to make changes to their audio prompts after a driver went ...

Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions ...

We get so used to automation and so jaded that we assume every experience is with a robot. So naturally exchanges between human workers and their customers can get so awkward and aggravating. See what ...

Hello, we are experiencing an issue with pma-voice on a RedM server where voice becomes robotic when starting to speak using push-to-talk. If a player presses the push-to-talk key and starts speaking ...

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

Meet the robotic dog with a memory like an elephant and the instincts of a seasoned first responder. Developed by Texas A&M University engineering students, this AI-powered robotic dog doesn’t just ...

Abstract: This study investigates whether personalized voice cloning can improve a robot’s likability compared to a design-congruent voice and a distinctly dissimilar voice. Participants interacted ...

OUROBOT combines ChatGPT’s conversational capabilities with a playful design to be a desktop companion that you can treat as a pet to share your feelings with. It learns from your preferences, ...

When we use large language models to augment, improve, or accelerate our writing, they erase our human voice in the process. Let’s not be erased. The robots may be taking over, but no one seems to ...