“Artificial intelligence doesn’t always want to optimize your life or steal your job. Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend.” That one line sums up a change that is taking place in consumer ...

With AI progressing so fast, it’s only a matter of time before we start getting AI companions like the ones we used to see in movies like R2-D2, Wall-E, or Baymax. Now, Singapore-based OKA Technology ...

A robot that follows you around the house may sound a little strange at first. Yet Colin Angle, the cofounder of iRobot and one of the people behind Roomba, is betting that the next big home robot may ...

At this point, most home robots are either glorified vacuums or far-off concepts that may never become commercially available. However, we just got a look at a new home companion robot potentially ...

Moflin leads our robot companion picks, while Loona, Mirumi, Ropet KAMOMO, and Eilik offer mobile, wearable, customizable, and budget alternatives. Five very different robot companions compete on ...

Realbotix is putting a hefty price tag on physical AI companionship, with its new ...

The Lingverse iKairos is a modular AI wearable that comes in the form of a desktop robot companion. It can also be detached and worn around the neck as an AI pendant. It will gather contextual data ...

One upcoming product drawing attention in the AI companion robot space is OlloNi SS1 by OlloBot. The cyber-pet is an evolution of the smart home robot in many ways. Unlike previous generations that ...

Every morning, the first voice to greet Deborah Humphrey is one that calls her “nugget.” It belongs to ElliQ, an AI companion robot that Humphrey, 73, received through her local New York State Office ...

An emotional AI companion robot is a hardware device built around presence and emotional interaction rather than productivity, using sensors and conversational AI to read tone, touch, and context for ...

This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and ...