It’s ironic that this wave of generative AI is still regarded as something of a novelty because walking, talking robots are now credibly achievable due to similar underlying advances.

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Barath Raghavan argue that all talking AIs and robots should use ring modulators to make themselves distinguishable from human speech.

I’ll put aside the obvious privacy concerns to simply note that when it comes to security, a walking, talking robot is a very different type of connected device. The “Westworld”-style ...

I’m talking about Aria, a highly life-like humanoid robot that transcends, its maker Realbotix says, the barrier between man and machine, and is available on order to be delivered within 12 weeks.