BERLIN (Reuters) - Joshua Martinangeli, 7, is too ill to go to school. But the German student can still interact with his teacher and classmates through an avatar robot that sits in class in his place ...

In Japan there’s an experimental coffee house called DAWN Avatar Cafe where you are served by an avatar robot and you can even converse with it while having your coffee or light snacks. Behind the ...

Ory Yoshifuji's Tokyo business employs housebound individuals to operate robots as waitstaff at a cafe and as personal tour ...

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A disabled woman who can't leave her house shared a sweet conversation with a tourist through a robot - which allows her to work as a waitress at a restaurant remotely, from home. All staff at Dawn ...

A team of engineers in Italy is taking remote-control robotics to a whole new level. Described as an ‘advanced teleoperated system’, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (ITT) have ...

The sci-fi world of the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar has been brought one step closer to reality with the creation of a robot that mimics the movements of its human controller. Telesar V transfers ...

The gigantic bipedal robot that military scientists built in South Korea has taken its first steps. Like in the popular sci-fi movies Avatar and Alien, the robot is controlled by a pilot that sits ...

First it was the telephone, then web cameras and Skype, now remote "presence" is about to take another big step forward - raising some urgent legal and ethical questions. "Beam me up Scotty" - that ...

Scientists have programmed a monster one-tonne robot that can walk and mimic human movements resembling something from Avatar. The METHOD-1 machine is four metres tall and when it stomps it leaves the ...

First it was the telephone, then web cameras and Skype, now remote "presence" is about to take another big step forward - raising some urgent legal and ethical questions. "Beam me up Scotty" - that ...

Scientists have programmed a monster one-tonne robot that can walk and mimic human movements resembling something from Avatar. The METHOD-1 machine is four metres tall and when it stomps it leaves the ...