Can Yotaro, the Japanese cyber-infant, really teach prospective parents about raising a newborn? Lisa Grunwald on the electronic practice child.

Technology; Robots; Toyota launches a 'real-life baby' robot that will be a companion to childless women and the elderly The robot - which is 10 centimeter tall and weighs just 183 grams - will go ...

As the robot becomes more humanlike, however, our emotional response becomes increasingly positive and empathetic. ... Fake robot baby provokes real screams (video) thomas ricker.

Meet the offspring of iRobot, and Transformers creator Hasbro. No, really. Back in 2000, the two companies teamed up on a project to create a baby doll ...

Human baby Charlotte, the 13-month-old daughter of NPR producer Tom Bullock, tried the same tests that DeeChee, the robot, does for language-learning experiments. Dr.

In a bid to boost the flagging Japanese birthrates, one company has introduced a practice baby, the “Yotaro robotic baby simulator,” that makes it all look easy. And really freaky. the result ...

Japan’s birth rate has been on decline for some time now, so engineers at Toyota have come up with an ingenious solution to help people apparently feel ...

Tosy Robotics Shows off Drawing, Dancing Robots. By Nick Barber. Aug 31, 2012 7:50 am PDT. SketRobo. Vietnamese toy maker Tosy Robotics showed two robots at the IFA electronics show in Berlin.