Its hands are a tad too rubbery and you won’t mistake it for a human, but an android from Toshiba can effectively mimic a sign language interpreter. Shown off at the Ceatec 2014 tech fair outside ...

Mohamed Baghdady leans to the microphone and says the word "one." A lone mechanical finger on the table responds with a curl, then rises upright. At another table in The Citadel engineering lab, a ...

Education technology has many faces. A prominent one has long been computer-assisted language learning, offering great promise for struggling readers, non-English speakers, or those seeking to master ...

Google and Alphabet are combining two of their most grandiose research initiatives: robotics and AI language understanding. All to create a "helper robot" that can fully comprehend natural language ...