People are more comfortable talking to female rather than male robots working in service roles in hotels, according to new research. The study, which surveyed about 170 people on hypothetical ...

When we give AI a humanoid form, we typically choose the robot to have feminine characteristics. Are we playing on stereotypes?

The robot is part of a five-year research project to build a talking friend for an aging, shrinking population in Japan.

If we allow the hypersexualisation of robots and the increasing objectification of women in media to continue, society risks ingraining misogyny even further in both digital and physical spaces.