ATR expects Telenoid R1 to be used as a new communication media and will actually be distributed by Japan’s Eager Co. Ltd. At the robot’s unveiling on August 1, in Osaka, ...

The silicon-skinned Telenoid R1 was designed to be entirely featureless so that people in its presence can project their vision of the Telenoid’s user onto the little glob.

His newest and arguably most unsettling robot yet is Telenoid, which resembles a barely-formed robotic child, with a soft body, clay-like face and stubs instead of limbs. Ishiguro… ...

Telenoid R1 bot meant to be 'minimalistic human' Robot wizard Hiroshi Ishiguro's latest creation comes with a high creep factor. But if you hug it, the creepiness goes away.

We can't say we weren't warned. Last August, Japan's Eager Co. Ltd. announced that it was planning to begin sales of the Telenoid R1 telepresence robot in October. The toddler-sized ghostly ...

Mere telephone calls aren't good enough? Video calls don't push the envelope far enough? Japanese researchers may have just what you need: a life-size robot that speaks, moves, and blinks your ...

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Japan's Osaka University never fails to fascinate us with his amazingly life-like robotic creations. However, his latest creation, the Telenoid R1 is very different.

According to research conducted by the Ars Electronica Futurelab museum in Austria, people are much more receptive to the Telenoid R1 when told it's from outer space.

Telenoid R1, the robot brainchild of designer Hiroshi Ishiguro, is what I imagine it would look like if Casper the Friendly Ghost got lucky with a sperm. It could also be the future of ...

It’s not exactly a hot bot. The eccentric-looking new robot designed by a Japanese robotocist has no legs, stumps instead of arms, and is only as tall as a young child, according to the Daily Mail.

Imagine talking to your friends through a robotic copy of Casper the Friendly Ghost. That's what I imagine it must be like to use Telenoid R1, the new telepresence robot developed by Osaka University ...

Back when we were initially befreaked by the Telenoid R1 robot midway through 2010, the last thing we wanted was a pocket-sized version of the creepy, fleshy telepresence 'bot that could lurk in ...