The Joystick, which lets you touch the screen to drag and ... your facial expressions and head movements to control the robot. The app immediately locked onto my face and when I smiled, Sphero ...

The researchers then designed a face that took advantage of the attachment method to allow their robot to have a convincing smile. Combined with other research, robots might soon have skin with ...

Stevie responds to other words with speech, gestures, and head movements. Tell the robot you’re sick, for example, and it slumps forward with a sorrowful frown on its LED-screen face and says ...

They have aviation-grade aluminium alloy bodies, a screen for a face, and pointy, cat-like ears. The brainchild of commercial-service-robot firm ... receive a pat on the head.