“I'm a jaded roboticist, but I smile back at this robot,” says Lipson. Emo consists of a face with cameras in its eyeballs and flexible plastic skin that has 23 separate motors attached to it ...

Emo arrives just weeks after Figure AI unveiled its OpenAI-imbued Figure 01 robot and its ability to understand and act on human conversation. That robot, notably, did not have a face. I can't ...