Dear friends. Thank you all for sending me links to Repliee Q1—now with legs!—but, as i4u points out, she’s almost 6 years old. This actroid has been greeting folks in Japan and kidnapping virgins for ...

For centuries, hospitality in Japan has meant kimono-clad innkeepers attentive to the last detail. Now, androids from the company that licenses Hello Kitty will staff a new hotel. A theme park near ...

Kokoro Dreams and Osaka University have built a bizarre android-like robotic actress that can speak, blink, and is even capable of several different human-like facial expressions (which is a few more ...

This little item is kind of a two-fer: it shows that plans by the Chinese government (and wish of some in the U.S.) to track citizens using cell phones isn’t the creepiest thing in mobile computing.