Watching hours of YouTube videos isn’t usually considered the most prestigious form of education, but it might be a surprisingly effective tool for robots learning to communicate like humans.

The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned ...

A humanoid robot named EMO learned to mimic human speech and expressions by practicing in front of a mirror, astonishing ...

Copying human expressions is super-difficult, but scientists used hours of YouTube videos to teach a robot how humans move ...

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine learning to connect audio directly to realistic lip and facial movements.

A new robot not only sports that feature, but it can actually train itself to speak like a person. Developed by robotics PhD student Yuhang Hu, Prof. Hod Lipson and colleagues at Columbia University, ...

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Researchers have designed a robot capable of displaying realistic lip movements, as used by humans in speech and singing.

Columbia Engineers have created a robot capable of mimicking and learning human lip movements during speech. The upgraded design combines advanced robotics with AI, enabling the device—named Emo—to ...

A humanoid robot with a deliberately unsettling face has shown a new way machines can learn the mechanics of speech, using a mirror and online video rather than human instruction. The system, known as ...