X-Origin AI showcased Yonbo X1, a $570 ChatGPT-powered robot designed to help children learn through empathy, adaptability, ...

In Companion, Sophie Thatcher plays a woman who’s nervous as she shows up to spend a weekend at a luxurious lake house with her boyfriend and his friends. That’s enough to set anyone on edge — and a ...

Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend. And while robot pets weren’t the biggest stars of CES 2026, they’ve become more ...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Warner Bros. There’s a feeling that I get sometimes while watching a new movie that basically boils down to: This should have come out a couple of ...

When the Companion teaser dropped in October, the ambiguous nature of Sophie Thatcher’s Iris blurred the lines between human and android. The new trailer answers things immediately — Iris is a robot.

The Companion Robotic Dog combines cameras, sensors, and on-device AI to move through spaces and respond to voice commands.

It’s not too hard to imagine a future where men opt to buy companion robots that they can control and manipulate into being their own personal sex dolls. In fact, writer and director Drew Hancock ...