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Emily [Articles]
Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. 'Emily' will s...
Has text-porn finally made computers 'human'? [Articles]
At first glance spam, pornographic text messages and video games are not contributing much to human development. But a good case can be made for regardi...
How to create your own virtual self [Articles]
One of the transhumanists we interviewed last year (video) is convinced that in the future we will be able to upload our minds into a computer. But why wai...
Dadorac [Chatbots - English]
[iTunes app] This unique App uses Mindskate's revolutionary "Natural Response" technology to elicit interesting and quirky responses. These are like the wi...
Interactive Drama Inc [Chatbots - English]
Interactive Drama has created a software system that allows users to have a spoken conversation with the video images of heroes, master teachers, medical e...
J-N1S (Janice) [Chatbots - English]
J-N1S (or 'Janice' as she's called) was designed to be a interactive FAQ for a guild website for an upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The 'personal...
Julie [Chatbots - English]
Julie is a conversational chatbot that uses 3D video and expresses many different emotions, actions, and poses. You can ask Julie to perform actions, like...
VirtualFem [Chatbots - English]
(erotic) - VirtualFem™ lets you interact with a very cute girl, and tell her what to do. A Virtual Girlfriend who lives inside your computer; she will do...
Domo robot overview [Robotics] Icon
The MIT CSAIL humanoid robot Domo being Domo.
Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr [Robotics]
Props to the guys over at smart-machines for digging up an awesome video (see below) of the Toyota humanoid robot running at 7 Km/hr (4 mph), besting Asimo...
Borderlands - Claptrap [Robots in Games] Icon
Borderlands is a series of action role-playing first-person shooter video games in a space western science fantasy ...
Metal Arms: Glitch In The System - Glitch [Robots in Games] Icon
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System is a third-person shooter action-adventure video game, developed by American team Swingin' Ape Stu...
Portal - Still Alive [Robots in Games] Icon
Still Alive is a song featured in the closing credits of the 2007 video game Portal. It was composed and arranged by Jonathan Coulton and was performed by ...
Portal 2 - Wheatley [Robots in Games] Icon
Wheatley is a fictional artificial intelligence from the Portal franchise first introduced in the 2011 video game Portal 2. Initially serving as a comedic ...
Portal Series - GLaDOS [Robots in Games] Icon
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is an artificially intelligent computer system from the video game series Portal. GLaDOS was originally...
Avatar [Robots in Movies] Icon
Avatar is a 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, released on December 16, 2009[1][4] by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entert...
District 9 [Robots in Movies] Icon
District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne C...
Passengers [Robots in Movies] Icon
[Arthur] Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction adventure film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts. It stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chr...
The Matrix Resurrections [Robots in Movies] Icon
Thomas Anderson is the creator of a video game series called The Matrix, based on his faint memories as Neo. At a coffee shop, he keeps cros...
The Outsider / Gangster World [Robots in Movies]
Gangster World (alternatively titled The Outsider for its video release) is a science-fiction TV movie released in 1998. It was about a futuristic theme pa...
Captain Video and His Video Rangers [Robots on TV]
[Ep: The Pits of Doom] [Ep: The Return of Tobor] (Tobor)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers [Robots on TV]
[Ep: Dr. Pauli's Planet] (Tobor)
Transformers: The Headmasters [Robots on TV] Icon
Transformers: The Headmasters is a Japanese anime television series that is a part of the Transformers franchise. Inititally, Takara, the Japanese produ...
Crazy Talk 5 [Software]
Build and animate expressive characters for a wide range of uses. Movie-making, web-video, avatars, live performance, cartoons and photography. Also crea...
Home Automated Living and HAL [Software]
Imagine the possibility of controlling all lights and appliances in your working and living environment by using the interface you desire. With HAL, the Ho...
Visual Recognition [Software]
"Visual Recognition is a spin-off company of the ISLA Laboratory at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Visual Recognition can also provide scientific consulta...
ALICE Artificial Intelligence and Nicole [Video] Icon
This video illustrates a form of Turing test where the computer tries to fool the human into thinking that the computer itself is human. I have merged t...
CG Emily, Image Metrics, and the Uncanny Valley [Video] Icon
Leah D'Emilio drops by Santa Monica-based Image Metrics, a motion-capture company on the cutting edge of rendering realistic faces, used on feature films (...
Loebner Prize 2009 video [Video] Icon
Loebner Prize Contest 2009, the 19th annual edition of 'The First Turing Test', held in Brighton, United Kingdom. Winner: Do Much More - David Levy. 2nd Cl...