Full-grown adults are embracing AI companion toys in China as the government tries to reconcile a tricky contradiction.

As I stick Mirumi onto my backpack, I think to myself, Nothing has changed in a decade. This is the latest consumer bot, the inheritor of a long history of Japanese robots whose purpose is to improve ...

On Jan. 29, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it would be retiring GPT-4o (along with the models GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) on Feb. 13. OpenAI says it made this decision because the ...

Talking to a bot can feel meaningful without being pathological. This article explains why context, use, and vulnerability matter.

On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what ...

For example, robotics can provide real-time physical support to prevent or reduce the impact of falls. These breakthroughs in ...

Alexa, will you marry me?” When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reported in 2016 that over 250,000 people had proposed to their ...

AI companion toys dominated CES 2026, with Chinese firms leading a fast-growing market focused on emotional connection and long-term user engagement.

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our ...

Leime's bibo wins 3 "Best of CES 2026" awards. The "happiest" AI art toy robot redefines companionship with its ...

As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to ...