Toward the end of Cast Away, Tom Hanks’ character screams those words in vain as his closest companion—a volleyball—floats away from his life raft. It’s as good as any other scene in cinema in which a ...

No, not real feelings. Thankfully. But, at least they can try. Meet FloBi, a robot head that's specifically designed to show a wide range of emotions, just by the doll-like features put upon it.

At least Flobi, the handiwork of engineers at Bielefeld University in Germany, eschews "realism" for cartoon cuteness. But don't let it fool you, this is a complicated device: about the size of a ...

The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists from Bielefeld University's Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) were ...

(Nanowerk News) The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists from Bielefeld University’s Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics ...

'The new network creates attractive training options for young academics,' says professor Dr. Helge Ritter from the CITEC Cluster of Excellence. The network will be focusing on intelligent systems ...