The more cute robots he met, the more the eyes emerged as a theme. Baxter, a robot designed to assist human factory workers, also had “big, emotive cartoon eyes.” Google’s self-driving car ...

It was an interesting year for robots at CES 2025 ... blinking its big cartoon eyes and flicking its ears like a deer.

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For decades the golden rule in robotics has been that the more lifelike a creation, the more likely it crosses the line from cute to creepy ... catches up, an image of a robot in a baseball ...

The “uncanny valley” is that creepy Final Fantasy feeling when a robot or CGI character is ... that Mori predicted between an obviously cartoon image and an obviously human one.

So it was a pleasant surprise to discover that Solatorobo has the hand-painted, wistful charm of a Japanese cartoon ... as photos and plates, running errands for locals and upgrading your robot ...

One of the provided robot images shows the smart home Artificial ... Would its video eyes transform into a cartoon playback screen or pop up a toddler-appropriate game? Similarly, LG did not ...

(No offense, pup.) A damn near physical manifestation of every cartoon robot ever, this two-wheeling bot is here to have complex conversations with you and manage your home. Whenever it eventually ...

Cartoon-eyed Sawyer will greet you at the till while another robot named Poursteady will prepare your cup of coffee, although you’ll probably be too busy taking photos on your smartphone to notice.

Karissa Bell As we walked over to the Ropet booth, a person was waving a plastic hotdog in front of the little robot and small cartoon hotdogs ... and has its own cute little emotional reactions.