People who speak the Berlin dialect trust social robots speaking the same dialect more than social robots speaking standard German Social robots can help us with many things: teaching, learning, ...

Experts tell us that how robots communicate with humans has a significant impact on our comfort and trust. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Potsdam looks into social robots ...

A team of researchers in Germany recently published a study examining the relationship between language and trustworthiness when it comes to human views on talking robots. The question at hand was ...

Research has shown that local dialects play an important role in self, in-group, and cultural identity. But can they also impact our interaction with robots? This question is particularly relevant for ...

A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.

Boston Dynamics made its robot dogs speak using ChatGPT, and they all have different personalities. The personalities include "1920's Archaeologist," "Precious Metal Cowgirl," and "Nature Documentary.

This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...