She can’t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor ...

"In other methods of acting, actors involve their own life experiences in the role, but Erica has no life experiences," one of the movie's writers explained This soon-to-be movie star may not have a ...

An artificially intelligent humanoid robot has nabbed the leading role in a $70 million (£56.4 million) upcoming Hollywood sci-fi movie, titled 'b'. Erica, the eerily human-like android actress, will ...

Exclusive: Divesh Lala, a member of the project who programmed the script to find and classify solo and shared laughter by robot ERICA, shares the significance of the research which could enable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. This robot is going to star in a sci-fi movie, being touted as ...

Some people will say that robots can't tell jokes, or that the human soul is the big difference between man and machine. Well, not any more WHAT separates us from robots? Some people will say that ...

In HBO’s Westworld series, actors like Evan Rachel Wood and Tessa Thompson give us a terrifying glimpse of what life might look like if robots were almost completely indistinguishable from humans. But ...

Roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University created Erica the robot. The Erica project is the result of collaboration between Osaka and Kyoto ...

WHAT separates us from robots? Some people will say that robots can't tell jokes, or that the human soul is the big difference between man and machine. Well, not any more. Erica isn't your average ...

She can’t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor ...