Virtual assistants are all the rage in the technology world, from Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri to Microsoft's Cortana and Alibaba's AliGenie. While nuances separate their individual capabilities, ...

The future, as seen in the popular culture of half a century or more ago, was usually depicted as quite rosy. Technology would have rendered every possible convenience at our fingertips, and we’d all ...

More than 200m homes now have a smart speaker providing voice-controlled access to the internet, according to one global estimate. Add this to the talking virtual assistants installed on many ...

iRobot and InTouch Health have partnered to create the Remote Presence Virtual+Independent Telemedicine Assistant (RP-VITA) through which a doctor in a remote location can conduct patient care as if ...

Virtual assistants are a lagniappe technology. Almost nobody actually needs them, but when they work properly they bring a little something extra to your life. Even though they’re heavily flawed and a ...

As I sat across the table from a soothsaying robot, I pondered exactly how this robot actually "thinks." Does it know the "future" because it was programmed to, or is it using a complex neural network ...