The third version of the robotic actor is a "life-size humanoid robot, an automated interactive actor. RoboThespian was created to educate, communicate, interact and entertain," according to its maker ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Shakespeare-reciting robot, the world's most merciless alarm clock and "intelligent" cocktail shakers were among the gadgets wowing ...

Engineered Arts Ltd.'s Robothespian is probably one of the first professional robotic actors who made it into the real world (sorry, T-1000). Its elegant movements, extraordinary body language and ...

They may look more like Wall-E than the raging humanoid robots in 'I, Robot', but these thespian actors are certainly causing a stir. RoboThespian is the creation of Cornish engineer Will Jackson who ...

SCIENCE centre W5 has unveiled its latest attraction, a life-sized robot which can talk, sing and even tell a joke. 'RoboThespian' has been used in visitor attractions worldwide including the Nasa ...

It sings, acts and even does impersonations. Just don’t ask this robot to vacuum the floor. One of the stars of Cebit 2011 is RoboThespian, an entertainment robot from the U.K. The robot, which drew ...

He may have plastic boobs saggier than Dame Judi Dench, but as Wired points out, this RoboThespian “shows more acting range than some Hollywood stars.” The British robot has been programmed to show ...

BBC Breakfast's presenters have come face to face with Robothespian, a cutting-edge humanoid robot made by Engineered Arts Limited. But as Nigel Crook of Oxford Brookes University explains, while the ...

There are two rules of stand-up comedy: You don’t steal other comedians’ jokes, and jokes about dating a MacBook are off-limits. I can’t tell if RoboThespian breaks the first rule, but it sure as ...

Give it up for RoboThespian! The programmable bot takes the stage to crack jokes for humans -- and comes across a bit stiff. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, ...

Remember your eighth birthday party when the animatronic band at Chuck E. Cheese sang happy birthday just for you? Now you can enjoy this any day of the year with RoboThespian. The complete ...