This summer, Gucci launched a WeChat campaign to connect with its luxury-loving Chinese audience, using a Japanese robot influencer to do so. Given the name Erica and assigned an age of 23 years, the ...

As the industry grapples with how to reopen for production safely, one movie is proceeding with a lead actress who is immune to COVID-19 — because she’s a robot named Erica. By Rebecca Keegan Senior ...

In a recent study, a research team led by Professor Taeshik Gong of Hanyang University ERICA, Republic of Korea, addressed this gap through experimental studies using video-based customer–robot ...

Researchers identify two distinct psychologicl pathways in this context: behavioral contagion and empathy, highlighting the importance of anthromorphism and moral identity. While many studies have ...