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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...
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...
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 ...
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)
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
Domo robot overview [Robotics] Icon
The MIT CSAIL humanoid robot Domo being Domo.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...