ElevenLabs Eleven v4 launches as the No. 1 voice model on the Artificial Analysis benchmark, built on an architecture that ...

Walmart dropped a surprising deal on a robot vacuum & mop that you can score for only $85. This is one price drop you don't ...

Insider Brief Hello Robot received a nearly $3 million NIH grant to develop and test its Stretch mobile manipulator as an assistive robot for older adults ...

During the most recent CES 2026, LG debuted its latest household robot. It vaguely resembles a human, and is designed to take ...

Neubility unveiled semi-humanoid robot Billy, targeting hundreds of units within two years, while Kakao advances a won-pegged ...

In “Artificial Intimacy,” Sherry Turkle warns that we seek comfort from A.I. devices at the peril of our well-being and even ...

Uhura Bionics is developing a wearable device that allows people who have lost their larynx to speak with intonation and emotion without surgery. Founder ...

The first prototype of a humanoid-like robot for military use is expected within a month, with its current $40,000–$70,000 ...

Text-to-speech technology turns written content into natural-sounding audio for videos, podcasts, education, localization, ...

Uhura Bionics, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Battlefield 200, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries ...

Voice Back allows people with ALS and other conditions that affect speech communicate in a voice that sounds like their own.

Podcast summaries in an app, audiobooks narrated by a synthetic voice, customer service calls handled by a bot, they all lean on text to speech systems that have improved dramatically in just the past ...