At one point or another, who hasn’t fantasized about having a limb replaced with a cyborg alternative, or some kind of robotic upgrade? Sadly, that technology still kind of sucks, so it’s up to your ...

The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...

New York-based sketch comedy group Olde English recently unveiled a Web cartoon that parodies the robotic voices currently prevalent on the R&B and pop charts. In the sketch, two of that sound’s ...

It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...

A new sensing system called SonicBoom could help agricultural robots navigate cluttered environments where visual sensors struggle. Developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, SonicBoom ...

Fast and complex multi-finger movements generated by the hand exoskeleton. Credit: Shinichi Furuya When it comes to fine-tuned motor skills like playing the piano, practice, they say, makes perfect.

Hanna Rosin: Hey. It’s Hanna, again. So last year, we did an episode with the sound designer behind The Zone of Interest, which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Sound. We thought we’d do a similar ...